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of fluid ; it had a flight Mfie tafte, and in colour had a 
greenifh caft. • ' 
One ounce was put into a phial, N° 1 . and about ten drams 
into another phial, N° 2.; both were flopped with glafs flop- 
pers. After two days they had both depofited a fmall fedi- 
ment; but the fediment in N° 1. was three times more than 
that in the otner. At the end of the week, the water in 
both was found fweet, and the fediment increafed, but moft 
in N° 1. 
At the end of fortnight, the water in N° 1. had a fetid 
fmell, with a whitifh cottony fediment, and a thin film of 
the fame kind fufpended at top. The whole, well fliaken 
together, was poured into a glafs veflel, and left to evaporate 
flowly. The refiduum confifted of fmall particles of a whitifli 
brown colour, refembling the inferior fort of Tabaflieer. 
The water in N° 2. had hardly any fetid fmell at this time ; 
and at the end of the month remained in the fame ftate: the 
fediment had increafed verv little. 
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The recent green bamboos, which, upon fhaking, appeared 
to contain water in the cavity, loft this appearance after (land- 
ing a few' days, feme fooner, fome later. When fplit, after 
they no longer gave any found by fliaking, fometimes no fluid 
was found in the cavity, as if the whole had efcaped. The 
interior thin pellicle, however, was difcoloured,' as if by recent 
moifture; but generally fome of the fluid remained in a muci- 
laginous ftate, more or lefs thick, at the lower part of the 
joint. It may be remarked, that fmall worms were fometimes 
found in the fame joints with the water, which furvived feveral 
hours, fwimming about in the water after its extraction. 
I11 the latter end of October, a green bamboo of five joints 
was brought to me, which appeared to contain both water and 
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