Vegetable Statkks. \6i 



And that there is fome air both in an 

 elaftick and unelailick ftate, mix'd with the 

 earth, (which may well enter the roots with 

 the nourifhment) I found by putting into 

 the inverted glafs z z a a full of water 

 (Fig. 35.) lbme earth dug up in an alley in 

 the garden, which, after it had flood foaking 

 for feveral days, yielded a little elaftick air, 

 tho' the earth was not half difiblved. And 

 in Experiment 68. we find that a cubick 

 inch of earth yielded 43 cubick inches of air 

 by diftillation, a good part of which was 

 roufed by the aclion of the fire from a fixed 

 to an elaftick ftate. 



I fixed alfo in the fame manner young 

 tender fibrous roots, with the fmall end up- 

 wards at 77, and the veflel y y full of w r ater -> 

 then upon pumping large drops of water fol- 

 lowed each other fan;, and fell into theciftern 

 x } which had no water in it, See Vol. II, 

 p. 267. 



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