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days 13 ounces, while another like oak 

 branch, fomewhat bigger than this, but with 

 no notch cut in its ftem, imbibed 25 ounces 

 of water. 



At the fame time I tryed the like Exper. 

 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 branchy and cut 4 fuch fquare gaps 

 to the pith, 4 inches above each other 5 the 

 i& North, 2d Eaft, id South, tfhWeft: It 

 had a long {lender ftem, four feet length, 

 without 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 amoftfree 

 lateral communication of the fap and fap 

 veffels, thefe great quantities of liquor ha. 

 ving paffed laterally by the gaps -, for by 

 Experiment 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 two fuch oppofite gaps in a 

 Duke-Cherry branch, 3 inches diftant from 

 each other : The leaves of this branch con- 

 tinued 



