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Its Pores^ as they are innumera- 

 ble ^ fo extream finall. Thele 

 Pores are not only (ufceptive of fo 

 much Moifture as to fill^ but alfo 

 to enlarge themfelves^ and fo to 

 dilate the Cortical Body wherein 

 they are ; which by the {hriv'ling 

 in thereof^ by being exposed to 

 the Air ^ is alfo ften. In which 

 dilatation many of its Parts be- 

 coming more lax and diftant^ and 

 none of them luftering a folution 

 of their continuity 5 'tis a Body 

 alfo fiiffidently pliable 5 org amoft 

 , exquifitely fine-wrought Sponge. 



The Extention of thefe Pores 

 is much alike both by their length 

 and breadth of the Root 3 which 

 from the fhrinking up of the Cor^ 

 tied Body^ in a piece of a cut 

 Rootg by the fame dimenfions^ is 

 argud. 



The proportions of this Cortical 

 Body are various : If thin ^ 'tis 

 called ai?^r.2?/e5& thought to ferve 



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