3 5 8 Hoe Conchfion. 



feminalis, efpecially towards evening, and ia 

 the night, when the beautiful Petala of the 

 flowers are clofed up, and they, with all the 

 other parts of the Vegetable, are in a ftrongly 

 imbibing ftate. And if to thefe united ful- 

 phureous and aereal particles, we fuppofe 

 fome particles of light to be joined, (for Sir 

 Ijaac Newton has found, that fulphur attracts 

 light ftrongly) then the refult of thefe three, 

 by far the mofl active principles in Nature, 

 will be a PunBum S aliens, to invigorate the 

 feminal plant : And thus we are at laft con- 

 dueled, by the regular Analyfis of vegetable 

 Nature, to the firft enlivening principle of 

 their minuteft Origin. 



The Conchjion. 



V| T E have, from the foregoing Experi- 

 V ments, many proofs of the very great 

 and different quantities of moifture imbibed 

 and perfpired by different kinds of Trees, 

 and alfo of the influence the feveral ftates of 

 the air, as to warm or cold, wet or dry, have 

 on that perfpiration. We fee alfo what ftores 

 of moifture Nature has provided in the Earth 

 againft a dry feafon, to anfwer this great ex- 

 pence of it in the production and fupport of 

 Vegetables j how far the Dew can contribute 



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