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from its branches, viz. becaufe thereby a 

 Jcfs quantity of lap arifing, it is better di- 

 digefted and prepared for the nourifhment 

 of the fruit 3 which from the greater quan- 

 tity of oil, that is ufually found in the feeds, 

 and their containing veffels, than in other 

 parts of plants, fhews that more fulphur and 

 air is requifite for their production, than there 

 is for the production of wood and leaves. 



But the mod confiderable objection a- 

 gainfl: this progreffive motion of the fap, 

 without a circulation, arifes from hence, viz. 

 that it is too precipitate a courfe, for a due 

 digeftion of the fap, in order to nutrition : 

 Whereas in animals nature has provided, 

 that many parts of the blood mail run a 

 long courfe, before they are either applied 

 to nutrition, or difcharged from the animal. 



But when we confider, that the great 

 work of nutrition, in vegetables as well as 

 animals, (I mean after the nutriment is got 

 into the veins and arteries of animals) is chief- 

 ly carried on in the fine capillary veffels, 

 where nature fele&s and combines, as mail 

 bed fuit her different purpofes, the feveral 

 mutually attracting nutritious particles, which 

 were hitherto kept disjoined by the motion 



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