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blood of one Horfe rofe eight feet three 

 inches, and the blood of another Horie eight 

 feet nine inches. The blood of a little 

 Dog fix feet and half high : In a large 

 Spaniel feven feet high. The blood of 

 the fallow Doe mounted five feet feven 

 inches. 



Experiment XXXVII. 



^r//4th, I fixed three mercurial gages, 

 (Fig. 19.) A, B y C, to a Vine, on a South- 

 eaft afpedi, which was 50 feet long, from 

 the root to the end ru. The top of the wall 

 was 11 -f- \ feet high; from i to £, 8 feet; 

 from k to e, 6 feet + ± ; from e to A, 1 foot 

 10 inches , from e to 0, 7 feet ; from to B, 

 5 + ~ feet ; from to C, 22 feet 9 inches; 

 from to z/, 32 feet 9 inches. 



The branches to which A and C were fixed, 

 were thriving moots two years old, but the 

 branch B was much older. 



When I firft fixed them, the mercury was 

 puflied by the force of the lap, in all the gages 

 down the legs 4, 5, .13, fo as to rife nine 

 inches higher in the other legs. 



The next morning at 7 a. M, the mercury 

 in A was pufiied 14 ~f- ~ inches high, in B 

 \z 4- \, in Ci3 -f-i.. 



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