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another like Oak-branch, fbmevvhat bigger 

 than this, but wirh no notch cut in its item, 

 imbibed 25 ounces of water. 



At the fame time I tried the like experi- 

 ment with a Duke-cherry-branch , it imbibed 

 and perfpired 23 ounces in 9 hours the firft 

 day, and the next day 15 ounces. 



At the fame time I took another Duke- 

 cherry-branch, and cut 4 fuch fquare gaps 

 to the pith, 4 inches above each other ; the 

 ifft North, 2d Eajl, 3d South, 4th Weft: It 

 had a long (lender ftem, 4 feet length, with- 

 out any branches, only at the very top -, yet 

 it imbibed in 7 hours day 9 ounces, and in 

 two days and two nights 24 ounces. 



We fee in thefe experiments a moft free 

 lateral comuunication of thefap and fap-vef- 

 fels, thefe great quantities of liquor having 

 pafled laterally by the gaps j for byExperiment 

 13, 14, 15, (on cylinders of wood) little 

 evaporated at the gaps. 



And in order to try whether it would not 

 be the fame in branches as they grew on trees, 

 I cut 2 fuch oppofue gaps in a 'Duke- cherry- 

 branch, 3 inches diftant from each other: The 

 leaves of this branch continued green, wichin 

 8 or 10 days, as long as the leaves on the other 

 branches of the fame tree. 



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