Ill Ve get able Statkksl 
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 n^uke-Cherry branch it imbibed and 
perfpired 2 3 ounces in 9 hours the firft day, 
and the next day 1 5 ounces. 
At the fame time I took another T)iike- 
Cherry branchy and cut 4 fuch fquare gaps 
to the pith, 4 inches above each other 5 the 
I ft North, 2d Eafiy 3d South, 4th JVefl; 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 feeinthefe Experiments a m oft free 
lateral communication of the fap and fap 
veflels, thefe great quantities of liquor ha- 
ving paflTed laterally by the gaps for by 
Experiment I3, 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 
^uke~Cherry branch, 3 inches diftant from 
each other : The leaves of this branch con- 
, tinned 
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