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Beams on the Rofcid, Creeping Vegetable, 

 and its Wings over the tof of the exalted Ce- 

 dar. This, among other Contemplations of 

 the Divine Pfalmift, probably drew that Se- 

 raphick Exultation, Hovp vponderfid are thy 

 Works ^ Lord ! 2*72 Wifdo7n haft thou formed 

 them all ^ thou haft made Sun and Moon, Scc. 



To be more particular: Th^Sun warms ^^^^^^^^^^ 

 and heats the Ground, and by his power- fjthn!^^^' 

 ful Influence helps to diflblve the latent Salts, 

 and prepare them for the Inhibition or Su- 

 aion of the Fibres, which, by the fame 

 Genial Force are in aftion to look out their 

 Food, exhales all fuperfluous Moifture, and 

 by its Vital Heat comforts the dilated Pores 

 thereof. The early Dews, which would 0- 

 therwife have a difmal Effeft in rotting, ra- 

 ther than refrefliing the Plant, is by this 

 means difFus'd and prefs'd into the very- 

 Nerves and other analogous Parts of it, (and 

 all Superfluities, as before mentioned) or 

 exhafd from it 5 the Boughs, Branches, 

 Leaves, and Fruit have the Benefit of this 

 Influential Power, and by it the Air is qua- 

 lified, which would otherwife flop the very 

 Courie of Nature by its Frigidity 5 and in- 

 deed 'tis hard to find any thing in the whole 

 Cycle of Botanology that has not an im- 

 mediate Share of this virtual and diffufive 

 Good. 



It is plain almofl to a Demonflraticn, that ^^^ ^^^^a- 

 the Strength of Heat that is found in Val-^^^^S 

 leys and Low Grounds, proceeds not only Heat iniow 



