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lays thém/and clofes them in a pulp: for their fafer protection from out: 
ward dangers,and for the fupply of convenient alimental juice, when 
the heatof the Sun begins to animate and ‘move thefe little automaton: 
or Engines; asiffhe would,from the ornaments wherewith fhe has deckt — 
thefé Cabinets, hint to us, that in them fhe has Jaid up her Jewels 
and Mafter-pieces. And this, if we are bur diligent in obferving, we 
fhall find her method throughout. There is no curiofity in the Elemental 
kingdom, if 1 may fo call the bodies of Air, Water, Earth, that are coms 
parable in form to thofe of Minerals; Air and Water having no format 
all, unlefs'a potentiality to be form'd into Globules; and the clods and 
parcels of Earth are all irregular, whereas in Minerals fhe does begin to 
Geometrize, and prattife, as ‘twere, the firft principles of Asechanicks, 
fhaping them of plain regular fi@ures, as triangles, {quares, ec. and te- 
traedrons, cubes, @c. But none of their forms are comparable to the 
more compounded.onesof Vegetables; For here fhe goes a ftep further, 
forming them both of hore complicated fhapes,. and adding alfo multi- 
tudes of curious Mechanick contrivances in their {tructure;for whereas in 
Vegetables there was no determinate number of the leayes or branches, 
nor no exactly certain figure of leaves, or flowers,or feeds, in Animals all 
thofe things' are exactly defin'd and determin'd; and where-ever there 
is either an excefs or defect of thofe determinate parts or limbs,there has 
been fome impediment that has {poil’d the principle which was moft ré+ 
ened : Here we fhall. find, not onely moft curioufly compounded fhapes, 
ut moft ftupendious Mechanifms and contrivances, here the ornaments 
are in the higheft perfection, nothing in all the Vegetable kingdom that 
is comparable to the deckings of a Peacock 5 nay,to the curiofity of any 
feather; as I ellewhere fhew 5 nor to that of the {malleft and moft defpi- 
eable Fly. But I muft not ftay on thefe {peculations, though perhaps it 
‘were very well worth while for one that had leifure,to fee what Informa- 
tion may be learn‘d of the nature,or ufe,or virtues of bodies,by their feve- 
ral forms dnd various excellencies and properties. Who knows but 4dam 
might from fome fuch contemplation, give names to all creatures? If at 
leaft his names had any fignificancy in them of thé creature's nature on 
which he impos‘d it; as. many (upon what grounds I know not). have 
fuppos d;:. And who knows,but the Creator may,in thofe charadterssiave 
written-and engtaven many of his moft myftériousdefigns and counfels, 
_and given man a-capacity, which, aflifted with diligence and indufty, 
may be able to read and underftand them. But not to multiply my dr 
greflionmore then I can the times will proceed.to the next, whichis, 
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» Seo Obferve KXK. Of the Seeds of Poppy. 
"THe fihall feeds of Poppy, which ate deferibed in the 19. scheme, both 
mirable foporifick «quality, deferve to be taken notice of aimoaig ft 
