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N° 3. 10 D*. each rolled up, as before, in wax, and 
afterwards each covered with a coat of 
brewers loam moiftened with a thick folu- 
tion of gum arable. 
N° 4. 7 D°. each coated with gum arable , and af- 
terwards with whiting moiftened with a 
thick folution of gum arabic. 
N° 5. 27 D°. each coated With, gum arabic , and af- 
terwards with brewers loam moijlened with 
a thick folution of gum arabic. 
N° 6. 3 D°. each covered with gardeners grafting 
mummy , confining of a mixture of bees- 
wax, rolin, and pitch. 
N° 7. 10 D°. each covered with fullers earth made 
into a pajie with a ftiff folution of gum 
arabic. 
Thefe [even parcels were all put into chip boxes, 
filled with dry houfe-J'and , and afterwards put into a 
tight cajk ; and arrived in Georgia in April following. 
Governor Ellis, in his letter to me, dated from thence 
May 6, 1759. fays, of all thefe experiments, none 
Jucceeded but the parcel N° 3. which had firft been 
covered with bees-wax , and afterwards with a pafte 
made of loam and dijjohed gum arabic . We even 
find, that thofe that were covered with a thin coat 
of bees-wax , and afterwards with paper , did not fuc- 
ceed ; as their covering was not thick enough to keep 
in their perfpiration. This was the cafe with fome 
of the Engli/Jo oak. acorns , which I had coated in the 
fame manner in October 1758, and cut open in No- 
vember la ft 17 79; their kernels being Jhrivelld and 
decayed : and thofe I had covered the fame time with 
a mixture of rofm , bees-wax , and pitch , tho’ their 
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