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confifts of an infinite company of {mall Boxes or Bladders of Air, which 
is a fubftance of a {pringy nature, and that will fuffer a confiderable con- 
denfation (as I have feveral times found by divers trials, by which I have | 
moft evidently condens dit into lefs then a twentieth part of its ufual di- 
menfions neer the Earth, and that with no other {trength then that of my 
hands without any kind of forcing Engine,fuch as Racks,Leavers, Wheels, 
Pullies, or the like, but this onely by and by) and befides, it feems very 
robable that thofe very films or fides of the pores,have in them a {pring- 
ing quality, as almoft all other kind of Vegetable fubftances have, fo as 
to help toreftore themfelves to their former pofition. 
And.could we fo eafily and certainly difcover the Schematifme and 
Texture even of thefe films,and of feveral other bodies,as we can thefe of 
Cork’; there feems no probable reafon to the contrary, but that we might 
as readily render the true reafon of all their Phexomena; as namely,what 
were thecaufe of the fpringinefs, and toughnefs of fome, both as to their 
flexibility and reftitution. What, of the friability or brittlenefs of fome 
others, and the likes but till fuch time as our Adcrofcope, or fome other 
means,enable us to difcover the true Schemati/m and Texture of all kinds 
of bodies, we muft grope, as it were, in the dark, and onely ghefs at the 
true reafons of things by fimilitudes and comparifons. 3 
~~ But, to return to our Obfervation.» I told feveral lines of thefe 
pores, and found that there were ufually about threefcore of thefe {mall 
Cells placed end-waysin the eighteenth part of an Inch in length,whence . 
I concluded there muft be neer eleven hundred of them, or fomewhat 
more then a thoufand in the length of an Inch, and therefore in a fquare 
Inch above a Million, or 1166400. and in a Cubick Inch,above twelve 
hundred Millions, or 1259712000.'a thing almoft incredible, did not our 
Microfcope aflure us of it by ocular demonftrations nay, did it not difco- E 
ver tous the pores of abody, which were they diaphragm’d,like thofe of 
Cork, would afford us in one Cubick Inch, more then ten times.as many 
little Cells, as is evident in feveral charr'd Vegetables; fo prodigioufly 
curious are the works of Nature, that even thefe confpicuous pores of 
bodies, which feem to be the channels or pipes through which the Sucens 
nutritivs, Or natura} juices of Vegetables are convey d, and feem to cor- 
refpond tothe veins, arteries al other Vefiels in fenfible creatures, that 
thefe pores I fay, which {cem to be the Veflels of nutrition to the vatteft 
body in the World, are yet fo exceeding fmall, that the Atoms which Epis 
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curws fancy'd would go neer to prove too bigg to enter them, much more 
to conftitute a fluid belly in sherk And how siniely {maller then mutt be 
the Vetlels ofa Mite, or the pores of one of thefe little Vegetables I have 
difcovered to grow on the back-fide of a Rofe-leaf, and fhall anon more 
fully defcribe, whofe bulk is many millions of times lefS then the bulk of 
the {mall fhrub it grows on; and even that fhrub, many millions of times 
Jefs in bulk then Socal trees (that have heretofore grown in England; 
and are this day flourithing in other hotter Climates, as we are very cre 
dibly inform’d) if at leaft the pores of this fmall Vegetable fhould keep 
any {uch proportion to the body of it, as we have found sae 
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