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The air ftill continued to flow at at, but 
in an hours time it very much abated, and 
in two hours ceafed quite; there being now 
no paflage for frefh air to enter, and fupply 
what was drawn out of the flick. 
I then, with a glafs crane drew off the 
water out of th© cylinder//, yet the air did 
not iflue thro' the wood at x, 
I therefore took the receiver with the 
flick in it, and held it near the fire, till the 
bark was well dryed 5 after which I fet it 
upon the air pump, and exhaufled the air, 
upon which the air iflued as freely at x as 
it did before the bark had been wetted, and 
continued fo to do, tho' I kept the receiver 
exhaufled for many hours. 
I fixed in the fame manner, as the pre- 
ceding Birch flick, three joynts of a Vine 
branchy which was two years old, the upper- 
moft knot r being within the receiver ; when 
I pumped the air pafled moft freely into the 
water x x, 
I cemented faft the upper end of the flick n 
and then pumped, the air flill ifliied out at Xy 
tho' I pumped very long, but there did not 
now pafs the 20th part of the air which 
pafled when the end n was not cemented. 
L 4 I then 
