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I thought fit to cut off a Slice of the Aloes^leaf from 
the thicket part of it, which appear'd in Fig. 8. A6C, 
which L tiers reprefent the fide of the Le^afy as I 
im^gi ; ^ was next the Plant 5 like as GU A the other 
fide, viiich one would take to be the Back of the (aid 
Leaf 
Th n part of the Leaf which we may look upon to be 
the Skin or Rind of it, and in which the Parts reprefent- 
ed in Fig. i, 2, g and 4, are for the moft part ftut up^ 
is the Space which is defcrib'd in Fig. 8. between B F, or 
D H 5 and between E F G H lies the fore-mehtion'd 
Matter, that I liken'd before to a Slimy or Vifcous Sub- 
ftancc. 
• As for what concerns the farther texture of the two 
particular Aloes leaves, and the Sharp Particles repr«u 
fented by Fig. 2, and that Matter in the great Canal^ 
which was at firft Yellow, and Toon after turnd Red ^ I 
could not difcover in the faid Vifcous Matter any Velieis 
that run thro the middle of it, like thofe which pro- 
ceeded out of the great Canals, and fpread themfeh es to 
the innermoft parts of the Leaf, and were exceeding fmail - 
and numerous. 
I placed another Slice of the Aloes4eaf (which was at- 
fo about the thicknefs of the back of a Knife) upon a. 
clean Glafi, and view'd it feveral timgs, for the ftke of 
the fine Peach Colours that were to be feen in it ^ and I 
obferved in the fame, a kind of an oval Figure, that lay 
in exaft order, with its Sap (hut up in it, after it had 
been dry about 3 weeks. 
I ordered the Painter to draw it, as you may fee in Fig. 
7* B. DE FGH, which fliows the faid Oval Membrane 5 
and FIG defcribes that part which 1 call the Canal, and 
by which I fuppofe it is made big, and alf^»Geives its in- 
ward Matter. 
In this Figure one fees a great many Fibres*) ' which I 
concluded it had borrowed from other Membranes, as 
well- 
