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air which is drawn in thro' the roots and 
ftem. 
From this Experiment wc find a confide- 
rable energy in the root to pu(h up Tap in 
the bleeding feafon. 
This put me upon trying, whether I could 
find any proof of fuch an energy, when the 
bleeding feafon was over, in order to which 
Experiment XXXV. 
July 4th at noon, I cut off within 3 in- 
ches of the ground, another on a fouth 
afpecl, and fixed to it a tube 7 feet high, as 
in the foregoing Experiment 5 Ifilled the tube 
with water, which was imbibed by the root 
the firft day, at the rate of a foot in an hour, 
but the next day much more flowly, yet it 
was continually finking, fo that at noon day 
I could not fee it fo much as ftationary. 
Yet by Experiment the 3d, on the Vine 
in the garden pot, it is plain, that a very 
confiderable quantity of fap was daily preA 
fing thro* this ftem, to fupply the perfpira- 
tion of the leaves, before I cut the vine off. 
And if this great quantity were carried up by 
H 4 pulfion 
