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I efteem alfo, that when it is very fmall , it bath the fame form and- 
fafliion with that when grown bigger, and being grown bigger^thac 
'dscompofedof the Paid very fmall particles. Now, if theft iictle 
figured parts of thofeSaps, which 1 fuppofe tobethefmalleft of 
that kind, and yet fuch, as that the baps of them is triangular or 
quadrangular, and ihatbeudes they are all alike ftrong, ortquaUy 
flexible 5 if thefe^ I Jaj^ did lye upon our Tongue,and were prciTed 
againfttneglobuis of our Tongue , and none of them all were al- 
tered by moifture or warmth , I fbould then judge, that all thofe 
little Figures of the faid faps of Plants would have one and the . 
fame tafte and operation. 
To illuftrate which, I fliall here fpeak of the difference of the 
tafte between SaU and Sugar. The grain of Sugar then confifts of 
divers pointed and angular fmali Figures^ and yet how angular and 
pointed foever thefe Figures are, they would not, if they remained ^ 
intire, caufe any taile upon our Tongue, forafinuchas (with fub-~ 
miflion to better Judgment,) their angles and points are big , each 
pointor angle of thefe grains of Sugar not touching one or two . 
globulsof our Tongue, but comprizing a great number of them; 
andthatthe rather, becaufe I takeitfar granted, that a fingleglo- 
bul, (of which bodies the pointed protuberances of our Tongue 
are made up,) is many thoufand times fmaller thanacommon graia^ 
of Sand, and therefore can produce no tafie. For, takeapolifhc 
pointed Diamond, of an ordinary bignefs , and put ir on the back 
of your hand with the point down'Aard , and prefs it upon your 
hand with the force of a pound weight ; this preiTure will caufe but 
little fmart to the hand, in regard th^vt the prefltire or force, piit to- 
the Diamond , doth not only touch the extream point of a Dia- 
mond^ but many other points, forafmuch asour skin, being foft 
and pliable, will, where that extream point comes to touch, (ink^^. 
Uttle inward, and fo , according to the bignefs of the Diamond^., 
willclofeabout the whole,orthegreat:efl: par: of the fame 5 where- 
by the skin will be touch^ as was faid, not in one only point , buz^ 
in many? though indeed moft of all by that which is the fliarpend- 
of the Diamond. Now this feems to be thereafon, why Sug^r^ if 
it were fo hard and rigid as nat to be diffoived in \vater,or warmch, 
would be infipid/orafmuch as it would not cauf:: any pungency up- 
on rheg'obuls of the Tongue, when the Sugar-grains lye thereon,by.v 
reafoa of the fmall preffu re made by the Tongue againft the roof 
