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the Peas dilated, yet they did not raife the 

 lever, becaufe what they increafed in bulk 

 was, by the great incumbent weight, preffed 

 into the interfaces of the Peas, which they 

 adequately filled up, being thereby formed 

 into pretty regular Dodecahedrons. 



We fee in this Experiment the vaft force 

 with which fwelling Peas expand ; and 'tis 

 doubtlefs a confiderable part of the fame 

 force which is exerted, not only in pufhing 

 the Plume upwards into the air, but alfo in 

 enabling the firft (hooting radicle of the Pea, 

 and all its fubfequent tender Fibres, to pene- 

 trate and moot into the earth. 



Experiment XXXIII. 



We fee, in the Experiments of this chap- 

 ter, many inftances of the great efficacy of 

 attraction ; that univerfal principle which 

 is fo operative in all the very different 

 works of nature; and is mofl eminently fo 

 in vegetables, all whofe minuteft parts are 

 curioufly ranged in fuch order, as is beft 

 adapted, by their united force, to attract pro- 

 per nourishment. 



And we mall find in the following Ex- 

 periment, that the diilevered particles of 

 vegetables, and of other bodies, have a 



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