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commended ; more fully, if poffible, to re- 

 monftrate — That by reafon of the feveral 

 kinds of cold before inftanced, the fap being 

 fomething condenfed ; the fame by the laws 

 of gravitation muft defcend from the head 

 of a plant, and not meeting with impulfe 

 ftrong enough from the ftill afcending, to 

 caufe it to re-afcend into the deferted veflels 

 above, and as fluids are always in motion 

 and never idle, the fame again, feeks an eafy 

 paffage, firft thro' the fmuous network of 

 the confiftent parts adjacent, then thro* the 

 membranous rind, between the rough outer 

 bark and the body j next more ealily yet, 

 thro' the outer coat of the former by means 

 of it's greater porolity, and inftantly ap- 

 pears in extra bodily Lilliputian ilioots. 

 And this the rather, the body being lower, 

 and ccnfequently in a warmer pofition of air 

 than the head. 



And hereupon, it may not be amifs fur- 

 ther to obferve, that were it not the nature 

 of an Oak, as happily it is not, on all fuch 

 occafions, inftead of bodily germens, it would 

 throw up traduces from it's roots. 



Lastly, 



