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cogage my felf in keeping a Journal throughout the whole 
Winter 'j from which Journal^ I thiak, I may note ^ i . That 
the wounded Sycamores never bled ^ neither in November y nor 
December J XK>x January yX\ot February y nor Marcb^ (which yet 
they did above 4.o^ feveral times 5 that is, totally ceafing and 
then beginning anew, ) unlcfs ihcTepreceded a fenfibleand vi- 
fible Froft^ for /had no other way of recording the temper 
of the Air. 2. That the Froft did not always let a bleeding 
the woundsjthey found made before they came, though fome- 
timcs they did ^ but upon their breaking up, or very much re- 
lenting, the wounds either made in that inftant-of^ime, or 
made many montfis before, did never feil to bleed more or 
lefs. 5* That pa^icularjy upon the breaking up of the two 
great and long Frofts (the firft of which hapn'd that year in 
that Country to be on the third of January s the fecond^about 
the i2th3 1 3th and i^^thof February^) all the wounds ranmoft 
plentifully : fo that fuch times may be looked upoa as the moft 
proper feafon of gathering great quantities of Juyce from this 
Tree. Removing into Craven the latter end of March , and 
thmct X.0 Londin ^ my Journal was difcontinued, I had yet, 
upon my return from London'mto Craven^ fome leifure to pro- 
fecute it* Thofe, I there wounded the latter end of M^y^ did 
did not bleedneither the remaining part of that month^iior the 
following months of 5^«»e and 5^j^/y, but had the orifice of the 
woundsjmade with a fmall Auger, in a manner quite grown up, 
and would fcarce admit a Pigeons feather* Wherefore the 
^othof Icut out a (quare piece of about two inches of 
the barK of a large and well-grown Sycamore, about my hight 
in the body of it : This wound began to run the next morning 
about 9 a clock,(o as to drop 5 and that was all, and drj ed up 
by 1 1 in the mornings The like cut I made in a young Sy- 
camore the 8th of Jrtguji ^ which in like manner bled the next 
moitting, but ftopp'd before 9 a clock . It did fo for .5 or :j 
days, but then totally drying* Afterwards removing to Yor^ 
th^fivdofNovember I here pierced, and otherv.ife wounded 
two Sycamores^ and having obferv'd them my felf at times, 
when, according to my former Obiervations made wNottin- 
gham-Jlnre^ 1 might well expeft to have found them bleedingv 
yet they ;!?ez^erfl:irrd,that we could obferve^Xo thi3 day. Since 
JUr, 
