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I then took a like bearing twig, without 

 either leaves or apple, it raifed the mer- 

 cury i inch. 



So a twig, with an apple an4 leaves raif- 

 ed the mercury 4 inches, one with leaves 

 only 3 inches, one with an apple without 

 leav^ 1 i ich. 



A Quince which had two leaves, juft at 

 the twig's infertion into it, raifed the mer- 

 cury 2 -]- f inches, and held it up a confi- 

 derable time. 



A fprig of Mint fix d in the fame manner, 

 raifed the mercury $ -\- i inch, equal to 

 4 feet -j- 5 inches height of water. 



Experiment XXXI, 



I tryed alfo the imbibing force of a great 

 variety of trees, by fixing Aqueo-mercurial 

 gages to branches of them cut off, as in Ex- 

 periment 22. 



The Pear, Quince, Cherry, Walnut, Peach, 

 Apricock, Plumb, Black-thorns, White- 

 thorns, Goofeberry, Water-Elder, Sycamore, 

 raifed the mercury from 6 to 3 inches high : 

 Thofe which imbibed water moft freely, in 

 the Experiments of the firft chapter, raifed 



the 



