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grees^ and have an advantageous 

 change made both of their colour 

 and of their taft. And this an an- 

 cient acquaintance of mine, a literate 

 and obferving perfon^ of whom I in- 

 quired about it 5 allured me, he had 

 himfelf lately tried and found to be 

 true in America.' And indeed I fee 

 not, why a convenient degree of 

 warmth, whether external from the 

 SunandFire^ or internal from fome 

 degree of fermentation or analo- 

 gous inteftine Commotion, may not 

 (whether the Fruit be united to the 

 Plant or no) put the faporifick Cor- 

 pufcles into motion, and make them, 

 by various and infenfible tranfcurli- 

 ons,rub againft each pther 5 and there- 

 by make the little bodies more (len- 

 der or thin., and left rigid^ or cutting 

 and hard], than they were before, 

 and by various motions bring the 

 Fruit they compofe to a ftate where- 

 in it is more foft in point of confi- 

 ftence 5 and abound in Corpufcles lefs 

 harlh and more pliable, than they 

 were before, and more congruous 



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