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Noah Webster, Experiments Respecting Dew, Intended to Ascertain Whether Dew Is the Descent of Vapour during the Night, or the Perspiration of the Earth, or of Plants; Or Whether It Is Not the Effect of Condensation, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1809), pp. 95-103
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