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But whether there be fuch a conftant Cir- 

 culation of the Sap in Plants as there is of the 

 Blood in Animals, as they would from hence 

 infer, there is fome Reafon to doubt. I might 

 add hereto the pleafant and deledable cooling 

 and refrefhing Shade they afford in the Sum- 

 mer-Time ; which was very much efleem'd by 

 the Inhabitants of hot Countries, who always 

 took great Delight and Pleafure to fit in the 

 (?pen Air, under iliady Trees. Hence that Ex- 

 preiTion fo often repeated in Scripture, of every 

 Man's Jitting under his own Vijie^ a?id under 

 his own Fig-'T'ree^ where alfo they us'd to eat ; 

 as appears by Abrahams entertaining the Angels 

 under a Tree, and {landing by them when they 

 did eat, Gen. xviii. 8. Moreover, the Leaves 

 of Plants are very beautiful and ornamental. 

 That there is great Pulchritude and Comeli- 

 nefs of Proportion in the Leaves, Flowers and 

 Fruits of Plants, is attefted by the general Ver- 

 did: of Mankind, as Dr. Moore and others well 

 obferve. The adorning and beautifying the 

 Temples and Buildings in all Ages, is an evi- 

 dent and undeniable Teftimony of this; for 

 what is more ordinary with ArchitcBs than the 

 taking in Leaves and Flowers and Fruitage for 

 the garnifliing of their Work ; as the Roman 

 the Leaves oi Achanthiis fat, and the y^ic^z/Z? of 

 Palm-1'rees and Pomegranats? And thefe.more 

 frequently than any of the five regular Solids, as 

 being rhore comely and pleafant to behold. If 

 any Man (hall obje(5t, that Comelinefs of Propor- 

 tion 



