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T^e get able Staticks. 



alfo in enabling the firft mooting radicle of 

 the Pea, and all its fubfequent tender Fibres 

 to penetrate and moot into the earth. 



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Experiment XXXIII. 



We fee, in the Experiments of this chap- 

 ter, many inftances of the great efficacy of 

 attraction ,• that univerfal principle which 

 is fo operative in all the very different 



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works of nature - 3 and is moft eminently fo 

 in vegetables, all whofe minuted parts are 

 curioufly ranged in fuch order, as is bell 

 adapted by their united force, to attract pro- 

 per nourifhment. 



And we fhall find in the following Ex- 

 periment, that the difievered particles of 

 vegetables, and of other bodies, have a 

 ftrong attractive power when they lay con- 

 fufed. 



That the particles of wood are fpecirl- 

 cally heavier than water (and can there, 

 fore ftrongly attract it) is evident, becaufe 

 fcveral forts of wood fink immediately 5 0- 

 thcrs (even cork) when their interfaces are 

 well foaked, and filled with water ; others 



( as the Peruvian Bark ) fink when very finely 



pulve- 







