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having its fmall Parts very like the fame vihich I told 
you before was come out of the Rocts of Grafs, 
The Diameter of thefe Roots was, to my meafuring, 
very near the Sixtieth Part of an Inch, and their out- 
moft end run fliarp too, almoft Hke the Biil of a Bird. 
About the length of Three or Four Diameters of the 
Root, the Root was even and fmooth, v. ithout any Roots 
coming forth, but when we look'd a little nearer the 
Taruw we faw little Roots coming forth, which was the 
longer the nearer they were to the Taruw but they were 
all of the fame thicknefs.; 
The Eghth Day, that part on the Side of the Taruw 
where the Plant was to come out. was grown out to the 
length of Two Third Parts of an Inch ; by which grow* 
ingofthe Plant, and its touching or preffmg agaif^ft the 
Sand, the Tarmv that was without the Sand, w« puH'd 
up, and the longed Roots, of which one of the Length 
of more than an Inch touching the Cork,turn'd crooked. 
I took the Cork from the Glafs, by which one of the 
Roots came out of the Glafs, upon which I lookt npon 
it by a Microfcope, for to fee the better the (mall Parts 
on fuch a thin Root, if it were poffibie, and if there 
fliould be any. 
: 1 did think that I could fee into fome, but when I 
had a mind to look upon them more nicely ,theMoifturc 
pf the Root was dried away, and it was wrinkled irregu- 
larjy together, as well in length, as in thicknefs. 
This drying away happened in lefs than half a Minute's 
time. 
The forefaid little Roots was in fuch a great Number, 
that if I would makethe Calculatioa,thofe of the length 
of art Inch would make an unimaginable Number* 
Now what belongs to the thicknefs of thefe very thin 
Roots, I judge, to my beft meafuringby the Eye, that 
where the Diameter of a tliin Root was one, the Diame- 
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