Vegetable Statich. \ \ j 



April iotb, ar 7 a. m, mercury 18 inches 

 high ; I then added more mercury, fo as to 

 make the furrace z 23 inches higher than x; 

 the fip retreated very little into the flem 

 upon this additional weight, which fhews 

 with what an abfolute force it advances: at 

 noon it was funk one inch. 



April nth, at 7 a.m. 24 -f \ inches high, 

 fun-fhine: at 7 p. m. 18 inches high. 



April 14th, at 7 a. m. 20 + \ inches high, 

 ztga.m. 22 -j-j-, fine warm fun-fhine 5 here 

 we fee that the warm morning fun gives a 

 frefh vigour to the fap. At 1 1 a. m. the fame 

 day 1 6 + |, the great perfpiration of the ftem 

 makes it fink. 



April 1 6th at 6 a. m. 19 -{- i rain. At 4 

 />. ;;;. 13 inches. The fap (in the foregoing 

 experiment, numb. 34.) rifcn this day fince 

 noon 2 inches, while this funk by the perfpi- 

 ration of the ftem ; which there was little 

 room for, in the very fhort ftem of the other. 

 April 17th, at 1 1 a. m. 24 + 1 inch high, 

 rain and warm ; at 7 p. m, 29 + ~, fine warm 

 rainy weather, which made the fap rife all 

 day, there being little perfpiration by reafon 

 of the rain. 



"• April 18th, at 7 a. m. 32-j-J inches high, 

 and would have rifen higher, if there had 



I been 



