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another like Oak branch, fomewhat bigger 
than this, but with no notch cut in its ftenl, 
imbibed 25 ounces of water. 
At the fame time I tried the like Exper. 
with a ‘Duke-Cherry branchy it imbibed and 
perfpired 23 ounces in 9 hours the firft day, 
and the next day 15 ounces. 
At the fame time I took another Duke* 
Cherry branch , and cut 4 fuch fquare gaps 
to the pith, 4 inches above each other; the 
1 & North y 2d Eaft, 3d South, 4th Weft : It 
had a long {lender ftem, 4 feet length, with- 
out 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 fee in thefe Experiments a moil free 
lateral communication of the fap and fap 
veflfels, thefe great quantities of liquor ha- 
ving paffed laterally by the gaps ; for by 
Experiment 13, 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 
Duke-Cherry branch , 3 inches diftant from 
each other : The leaves of this branch con- 
tinued green, within 8 or 10 days as long as 
the leaves on the other branches of the fame 
tree, K The 
