xi£ Vegetable Stanch . 
The greateft height to which they puflied 
the lap feverally was A 21 inches, B 26 
inches, C 26 inches. 
The mercury conftantly fubfided by the 
retreat of the fap about 9 or 10 in the 
morning, when the Sun grew hot ; but in 
a very moift foggy morning the fap was later 
before it retreated, viz. till noon, or fome 
time after the fog was gone. 
About 4 or 5 a clock in the afternoon, 
when the Sun went off the Vine, the fap 
began to pufh afrelh into the gages, fo as 
to make the mercury rife in the open legs, 
but it always rofe fafteft from fun-rife till 
9 or 10 in the morning. 
The fap in B (the oldeft ft cm) play'd the 
moft freely to and fro, and was therefore * 
fooneft affefted with the changes from hot 
to cool, or from wet to dry, and vice versa , . 
And April 10, toward the end of the 
bleeding feafon, B began firft to fuck up the 
mercury from 6 to 5, fo as to be 4 inches 
higher in that leg than the other. But 
April 24, after a night’s rain, B puttied the 
mercury 4 inches up the other leg 5 A did not 
begin to fuck till April 29 P viz. 9 days after 
B \ C did not begin to fuck till. Map 3* viz* 
1 3 days after B P and 4 days after A . May 5. 
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