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\yith no views, either to fenfual gratification, 

 or fupport : And the duckling, which has been 

 hatched under a hen, at a diftance from water, 

 difcovers a conftant reftlefsnefs and impatience j 

 and is obferved to pradife all the motions of 

 fwimming, though a ftranger to its future de- 

 fignation, and to the element, for which its oily 

 feathers, and web-like feet, are formed. In- 

 flinds analogous to thefe, operate with equal 

 energy, on the vegetable tribe. A feed contains 

 a germy or plant in miniature, and a radicky or 

 little root, intended by nature to fupply it with 

 nourifhment. If the feed be fown in an inverted 

 pofition, ftill each part purfues its proper direc- 

 tion. The plumula turns upward, and the radicle 

 ftrikes downward, into the ground. A hop- 

 plant, turning round a pole, follows the courfe 

 of the fun, from fouth to wefl, and foon dies, 

 when forced into an oppofite line of motion : 

 But remove the obftacle, and the plant will 

 quickly return to its ordinary pofition. The 

 branches of a honey fuckle fhoot out longitu- 

 dinally, till they become unable to bear their 

 own weight ; and then ftrengthen themfelves, 

 by changing their form into a fpiral : When they 

 meet with other living branches, of the fame 

 kind, they coalefce, for mutual fupport, and 

 one fpiral turns to the right, and the other to 

 the left; thus feeking, by an inflindive impulfe, 

 feme body on which to climb, and increafing 



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