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principles, from a leffer to a greater degree 

 of confiftency, till they are advanced to that 

 vifcid ductile ftate, whence the feveral parts 

 of Vegetables are formed -, and are at length 

 firmly compacted into hard fubftances, by 

 the flying off of the watry diluting vehicle, 

 fooner or later, according to the different de- 

 grees of cohefion of thefe thus compacted 

 principles. 



But when the watry particles do again foak 

 into and difunite them, and their repelling 

 power is thereby become fuperior to their 

 attracting power; then is the union of the 

 parts of Vegetables thereby fo thoroughly dif- 

 folved, that this ftate of putrefaction does, 

 by a wife order of Providence, fit them to re- 

 fufcitate again in new vegetable productions, 

 whereby the nutritive fund of nature can ne- 

 ver be exhaufted ; which being the fame both 

 in Animals and Vegetables, it is thereby ad- 

 mirably fitted, by a little alteration of its tex- 

 ture, to nourim either. 



Now, tho' all the principles of Vegetables 

 are, in their due proportion, neceffary to the 

 production and perfection of them ; yet we 

 generally find greater proportions cf oil in 

 the more elaborate and exalted parts of Vege- 

 tables : And thus feeds are found to abound 



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