Vegetable Staticks . 1 1 3 
April 10th at 7 a. m. mercury iS inches 
high 5 I then added more mercury, fo as to 
make the furfacc^ 25 inches higher than 
the fap retreated very little into the ftem, 
upon this additional weight, which fhews 
with what an abfolute force it advances : at 
noon it was funk one inch. 
April 1 ith at 7 a . m. 24 i, inches high, 
fun-fhine : at y p. m. 18 inches high. 
April 14th at 7 a. m. 10 ~ inches high, 
at 9 a. m. 22 -]~ fine warm fun-fhine 5 
here we fee that the warm morning fun 
gives a frefh vigour to the fap. At 1 1 a. 
the fame day 16 -f - -r, the great perforation 
of the item makes it fink. 
April 1 6th at 6 a. m. if i rain. At 4 
p.m. 13 inches. The fap (in the foregoing 
Experiment, numb. 34.) rifen this day fince 
noon 2 inches, while this funk by the perfpi- 
ration of the ft cm § which there was little 
room for, in the very flhort ft cm of the other, 
April 17 at 1 1 a.m* 24 -j~ ^inch high, 
rain and warm 3 at?/, ni, 29 -j-f, fine warm 
rainy weather, which made the fap rife all 
day, there being little perfpiration by reafon 
of the rain. 
April 1 8th at 7 a. m. 3 2 -f- 4 - inches high, 
and would have rifen higher, if there had 
I been 
