EXPER. XII. 



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To imitate by Art, andfometimes even 

 in Minerals^ the peculiar Tafts of 

 natural Bodies > and even Vegetables. 



THis is not a fit place to declare, 

 in what fenfe I do or do not 

 admit of Souls in Vegetables, nor 

 what I allow or deny to the Seminal 

 or Plaftick principle afcribed to 

 Plants : But perhaps it will not be er- 

 roneous to conceive, that, whatever 

 be the Agent in reference to thofe 

 Tafts, that are faid to be fpecifick 

 to this or that Plant y that on 

 whofe immediate account it is or 

 becomes of this or that nature, is a 

 complication of Mechanical Affe&i- 

 ons 5 as fhape, fize, &c. in the par- 

 ticles of that matter which is faid to 

 be endowed with fuch a fpecifick 

 taft- 



To illuftrate this, I thought it ex- 

 pedient, to endeavour to imitate the 

 taft of fome Natural bodies by Artifi- 

 cial 



