9 6 Vegetable Staticks. 



alfo in enabling the firft fhooting radicle of 

 the Pea, and all its fubfequent tender Fibres, 

 to penetrate and moot into the earth. 



Experiment XXXIII. 



We fee, in the Experiments of this chap* 

 ter, many inftances of the great efficacy of 

 attraction 5 that univerfal principle which 

 is fo operative in all the very different 

 works of nature 3 and is mod eminently fo 

 in vegetables, all whofe minuted parts are 

 curioufly ranged in fuch order, as is beft 

 adapted by their united force, to attraft pro- 

 per nourifhment. 



And we fnall find in the following Ex* 

 periment, that the diffevered particles of 

 vegetables, and of other bodies, have a 

 ftrong attractive power when they lay con- 

 fufed. 



That the particles of wood are fpecifi- 

 cally heavier than water (and can there- 

 fore ftrongly attraft it ) is evident, becaufe 

 feveral forts of wood fink immediately 5 o- 

 thcrs (even cork) when their interftices are 

 well foaked, and filled with water ; others 

 ( as the Peruvian Bark ) fink when very finely 



pulve* 



