^6 Vegetable Staticks. 
alfo in enabling the firft fhooting radicle of 
the Pea, and all its fubfequent tender Fibres^ 
to penetrate and Ihoot into the earth. 
Experiment XXXIIL 
We fee, in the Experiments of this chap« 
ter, many inlVances of the great efficacy of 
attraftion ; that univerfal principle which 
is fo operative in all the very different 
works of nature ^ and is moft eminently foi 
in vegetables, all whofc minuteft parts are 
curioufly ranged in fuch order, as is beft 
adapted by their united force, to attrad pro- 
per nourifhment. 
And we fhall find in the following Ex- 
periment, that the diffevered particles of 
vegetables, and of other bodies, have a 
ftrong attradive power when they lay con- 
fufed. 
That the particles of wood are fpccifi- 
cally heavier than water (and can there- 
fore ftroiigly attrad it ) is evident, becaufe 
feveral forts of wood fink immediately 5 o- 
thers (even cork) when their interflices are 
well foaked, and filled with water 5 others 
( as the Peruvian Bark ) fink when very finely 
pulve-^ 
