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Principles of thefe Principles : which though they flSay fye lo a 
great abyfs of obfcurity, yet they are not by him judged to be 
altogether undifcoverable* 
Sofar the jfr/? part of this Book.The Second^ being a CoDtinu- 
ationof thcAoatotny of VegetablcSjparticuiarly profccuted up- 
on Roots^2iud premifiog fomething confiderable as to their Fi- 
gurc5,MotioDs( where he notes the motion of Defcent to belong 
to very many other kinds bcfidcs theBulbous)and Ages 5 it pro- 
ceeds to thefeveral Farts of a Root 5 as r. the sl{iu^ its external 
Accidents and Or igioal^its Compounding parts^the one Paren- 
chymouSjConfiftiog of bubles, the other Ligoous, confifting of 
Tubulary velIels,2.The Bar^e 5 its Original ^ and external Acci" 
dentSjits Compouoding parts^likewife Parenchymous^ and Lig. 
nous 5 which latter confifts of Succiferous vefTels, conjugated 
intoThreds^but no where inofculated^nor ramificdjbutdiftinft 
as the fibres of a Nerve^which veflels are of various kinds,deno- 
niioatcd f om their contents^asLycoph^dufts^Laftealsj &c, 3, 
That portion of the Root within the Bar^^ of the like compofitioa 
with the fortBrj j and its Lignoas part compounded of Succife- 
rous and A5r-Viflels: Where the ftru(Sture of the Bark.andjmore 
vifibiy^of thispof tion of the Root, is compared with that of a 
lidufcU '^ and the Air-vefTels with Nerves: Concerning which lat- 
ter veflTels he obferves with the Excellent Afalpighi (who, about 
two years fincejprefeoted the Ro/al Society with his Manufcript 
upon the famefubjeftjthe Anatcme of Plants) the <9p/r^/ pofiti- 
on of their parts ; adding to that Obfervation, that that Spiral 
Zone, as Signer iJ/J^/g^i calls it, is not one abfoluf;ely entire 
piece, bvii corififis of two or more round and perfrfl: Fibres 
ftanding i5:ol!atcral!y together. 4.The Pith not common to all 
Roots^its bfigiqal.pareochymous Nature and Texture^like to a 
Rete mirabile or an iofioit number of fmall fibres admirably com- 
plicated together 5 its contents being fometimes a limpid Li- 
quor/ometimes a vaporous Air. And fo much of the Second part. 
The contains an Account of the Vegetation o( Roots, 
grounded chiefly upon the foregoing Anatomy. Where ourAu- 
thor having foberly weighcd^that all true Philofophy nece^Aa- 
riiy aflTerts a God^and fecures oui Veneration of Him^and of his 
Providence^and Laws, cocfiders l^Mure as oneUoiverfal Mo- 
narchy jvifibk.as in all other particular Oeconomies,fo no lejs in 
i\inoi VegetablesAi we take notice, that the Soil is prepar d by 
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