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III 





3*z 



Of Vegetation. 



age, when their quantity of oil is increafed, 

 with their greater maturity. 



Whence we find that nature's chief bufi- 

 nefs, in bringing the parts of a vegetable, 

 efpecially its fruit and feed to maturity, is 

 to combine together in a due proportion, 

 the more active and noble principles of ful- 

 phur and air, that chiefly conftitute oil, 

 which in its moft refined date is never found 

 without fome degree of earth and fait in it. r 



And the more perfect this maturity is, the 

 more firmly are thefe noble principles united. 

 Thus Rhenifh Wines, which grow in a more 

 northern climate, are found to yield their 



Tartar, /'. e. by Expcr. 73. their incorpora- 

 ted air and fulphur in greater plenty, than 



the ftronger Wines of hotter countries, in 

 which thefe generous principles are more 

 firmly united : And particularly in Madera 

 Wine, they are fixt to fuch a degree, that 

 that Wine requires a confiderable degree of 

 warmth, fuch as would foure many other 

 Wines, to keep it in order, and give it a 

 generous tafte ; and 'tis from the fame rea- 

 fon, that imall French Wines are found to 

 yield more fpirit in diftilUtion, than ftrong 

 Spam^ Wines. . But 



