($4 Vegetable Stattcks. 



about noon rifen to 48 degrees, then 

 the fecond Thermometer was 45 degrees, 

 the 5th 33, and the 6th 31, the 3d and 4th 

 at intermediate degrees. The 5th and 6th 

 Thermometer kept nearly the fame degree of 

 heat, both night and day, till towards the lat- 

 ter end of the month ; when as the days grew 

 fhorter and cooler, and the nights longer 

 and cooler, they then fell to 25 and 27 

 degrees. 



Now, fo considerable a heat of the Sun, 

 at two feet depth, under the earth's furface, 

 muft needs have a Strong influence, in rail- 

 ing the moifture at that and greater depths ,• 

 whereby a very great and continual wreak 

 muft always be afcending, during the warm 

 Summer feafon, by night as well as day \ for 

 the heat at two feet depth is nearly the fame 

 night and day : The impulieof the Sun-beams 

 giving the moifture of the earth a brisk undu- 

 lating motion, which watery particles, when 

 Separated and rarified by heat, do aScend 

 in the form of vapour : And the vigour of 

 warm and confined vapour, (Such as is that 

 which is 1, 2, or 3 feet deep in the earth) 

 muft be very conftderable, So as to pene- 

 trate the roots with Some vigour 5 as we 

 2 ma/ 



