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imbibe with the like force, with the bark 

 off, I took two branches which I call M 

 and N; I fixed M in the fame manner as 

 the branch in the foregoing Experiment, 

 with its top downwards, but firfl: I took off 

 all the bark from i to r. Then I fix'd in the 

 fame manner the branch 2V, but with its 

 great end downwards, having alfo taken off 

 all the batk from i to r 5 both the branches 

 drew the mercury up to z> y 8 inches ; fo 

 they imbibed with equal ftrength at either 

 end, and that without bark. 



Experiment XXVIII. 



Augufl 13. I flripped the leaves off an 

 T Apple tree branch, and then fixed the great 

 end of the ftem in the gage , it raifed the 

 mercury 2 -J- J inches, but it foon fubfided, 

 for want of the plentiful perforation of 

 the leaves, fo that the air came in almoft as 

 faft as the branch imbibed water. 



Experiment XXIX. 



I tryed alfo with what force branches 



would imbibe, at their fmall ends, as they 



4 are 



