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fpringing out of the great one, and cnid hitnto dravr 
Fig. 20. KL MiN (hows a finaU part of ttc great Root, 
which appca/d to the Limner as thick and as large as the. 
fpace bfctwccn K and N, and the frnall Roots appear d 
growing out of the fides of the great Root, as is reprefent- 
cd between M and N. 
Now if we conclude (as it is bat rcaPonablc) that even 
the fmalleft Roots are furrounded with fuch other rows of. 
excccdiiDg fmall Roots, how ought we to be furpriz'd at 
the wonderful workman(hip of God, and efpecially when 
we proceed to the Diffedtion and Anatomy of the Roots^ 
r and the Body, and ^f all thofe ftrings which ferve to 
convey its nouri(hment to the Plant) and to the obferva- 
tion of their Texture thrO our Glaffes. 
Thus we may fee with our naked Eye, how a fmall ; 
Particle no bigger than a courfe Sand (as the Plant isre- 
prefented in Fig. 6. by C) is increased in bulk, within the 
fpace of eleven days, as I have fhewn already in Fig. 19, 
A H 'G F 5 and all this is brought to pafs by Heat and iMoi- 
fture in a clofed Veffel 5 a plain demonftration that the 
Plant, and all that belong d to it, was actually in the Seed, 
that is to fay, not only the young Plant, its Body, Root and 
Fruit, but even the Seeds thereof alfo, in order to perpe- 
tuate the fpecies, fo long as the Earth ftiail have a being, 
and fo long as the Sun (hall fhine upon it. 
In the month of Derezf/^er laft. Hook another Glafs Tube 
longer and larger than the ffrft, as you may fee Fig. 2 1. A 
B G D E F G and ftopt both ends with a piece of Cork, 
boring a fmall hole in the upper Cork, and filling the Tube 
a little higher than B G with dry fcouring Sand, which I 
nrft moiftnd with a little Rain water 5 but one muft take 
eat^ of making the Sand too wet, for that will rot theSeeds, 
neither muft it be too clofely compreft, left it ftiould hinder 
the young Plantfrompulhing forth its Root or Branches. 
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