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I then fcrewed a fecond tub cfg to the firft, 
and then a third g a to 25 feet height. 
The ftem not bleeding into the tube, I 
filled the tube two feet high with water, 
the water was imbibed by the ftem within 
3 inches of the bottom, by 8 a clock that 
evening. In the night it rained a fmall 
ftiower. The next morning at 6 -j- ±, ? the 
water was rifen three inches above what it 
was fallen to laft night at eight a clock. 
The Thermometer which hung in my porch 
was 1 1 degrees above the freezing point 
March 3 ift from 6 -J- i a, m. to 10 p. m, 
the fap rofe 8 -f- i inches. April ift at 6 
a. m. Thermometer 3 £. degrees above the 
freezing point, and a white hoar froft, the 
fap rofe from ten a clock laft night 3 -}- 
inches more 3 and fo continued riling daily 
till it was above 21 feet high, and would 
very probably have rifen higher, if the joynt 
b had not feveral times leaked : After flop- 
ping of which it would rife fometimes at 
the rate of an inch in 3 minutes, fo as to 
rife 10 feet or more in a day. In the chief 
bleeding feafon it would continue rifing 
night and day, but much more in the day 
than night, and moft of all in the greateft 
heat of the day ; and what little finking it 
1 had 
