236 Mifcellanea Curioja. 



confind to its Beds of Earth, without ever ad- 

 vancing up into Plants, did not Water, or fbme 

 like Inftrument, fetch it forth and carry it un- 

 to them. That therefore there is that plenti- 

 tiful Provifion, and vaft Abundance of it fup- 

 plied to all Parts of the Earth, is a mark of a 

 natural Providence fuperintending over the Globe 

 we inhabit ; and ordaining a due Di/penfation 

 of that Fluid, without the Miniftry of which 

 the Noble Succeflion of Bodies we behold, Ani- 

 mal s y Vegetables, and Mine 

 * Conf. mt. Hift. rals, would be all at a ftand *. 

 jE*rt*,p.47.&feq. But to keep to Plants, 'tis 



uti&p. 128, or,. mamfeft Water< as weli on 



this, as upon the other Hy- 

 pothefis, is abfblutely neceflary in the Affair of 

 Vegetation , and it will not fucceed without 

 it : Which indeed gave occafion to the Opi- 

 nion, that Water it felf nourifhed, and was 

 changed into Vegetable Bodies. They faw, 

 though thefe were planted in a Soil never fb 

 rich, fo happy, fb advantageous, nothing cameof 

 it unlefs there was Water too in a confiderable 

 quantity. And it muft be allowed Vegetables 

 will not come on or profper where that is 

 wanting : But yet what thofe Gentlemen in- 

 ferr'd thence, was not, we fee, well groun- 

 ded. 



This Fluid is capacitated for the Office here 

 aflign'd it feveral ways : By the Figure of its 

 Parts j which, as appears from many Experi- 

 ments, is exactly and mathematically Spheri- 

 cal ; their Surfaces being perfectly polite, and 

 without any the leaft Inequalities. 5 Tis evident, 

 Corpufcles of fuch a Figure are eafily fufcepti- 

 ble of Motion, yea, far above any others what- 

 ever j 



