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niolfl: Tongue id tafting: Forthac there may be a fong-Iafiing mo- 
uon, remaining in Lix^nors or Saps upon a little ftirring (which in 
our cafeoccafions the pain,) haih been divers times by me obfer- 
ved, and pariicularly in Water frozen in Winter, affixed to the pin 
of my Microfcope : In this little Icy particle ^ though it be no 
bigger than a final] pins head, I Taw, as foon as it thawed, very 
many terreftrial particles moving in the water , (which before the 
congelation were nor vifible,) and coritinuing fo long in that mo- 
tion, thatmy eyes were tired with looking oi^ The like motion [ 
have no:ed in the Jnyce^ fqueezedout of the upper peel of a frefli 
Limon,wherein thofe little globuls.of which that peel is compofed, 
do move, which are loofened by the fqueezing of the Juyce. 
This moc.on of the fald particles in the moifture is very pretty to 
behold, and many Speflators would fwear they were little living 
Animals. Obferving this motion, I conceived, that the motion- 
of the fiiarp particles that are in fome Saps, was not lefs, efpccially 
being fee on by the motion of the Tongue* 
What further concerns in general the Saps of Herbs obferved 
by me, I find in them peculiarly figured fmall bodies,but that for 
the moll part in fuch as I have fuffered part of the moiflure to be 
exhaled from. But fuch little Pipes, as I have mentioned to be in 
the H^rbArum^ I have not difcovered in any other Plants, hitherto 
viewed by me, but in the Sap of green Vine-brAnches^ zud Afpara- 
gm^ and very many of them in the Sap of the ftalk and leaves of 
CatjipuNa {Sparge,^ and fome few in the Sap which I fqueezed out 
of the Root of White Hellebore, But to difcover the vertues and 
operations of Herbs from the figures of their Saps, is an under- 
taking as yet too difficult for me. For, fuppofe there were half a 
fcore forts of Herbs, in the Saps of which there were found one 
and the fame Figure, as for example, fuch an one, in which ih^ ba^s 
of the figure confifts of a triangle, or quadrangle, and the fides of 
them running up to the fiiape of a Pyramid^ afer the manner of a 
well polifht triangular or quadrangular pointed Diamond (for 
fuch a Figure I have difcovered in fome fapsof Herbs;) I am 
then to imagine, that, w^hen I fee fuch or the like figures in Saps, 
their beginning hath been a thoufand or more times fmaller; 
I miift think bcfides, that we cannot difcover any of the minute 
particles of any -ap, with themoft perfeft Microfcope, bur the 
little figureof them hath been from its beginning much fmaller: 
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