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Leaves that cover it, the Beds of Seed were in 
their Ranges, with only a dry Skin on each. 
In the Ears of the other Hills, from which I 
had taken all the Silk 3 and in thofe that I had 
cover’d with Muflin, there was not fo much as 
one mature grown Grain, nor other than as I have 
mentioned in the firft : But in all the others, in 
which I had left Parr, and taken Part of the Silk, 
there was in each the exaCt Proportion of full 
Grains, according to the Quantity or Number of 
the Filaments I had left on them. And for the 
few Grains I found on one Head in the firft Hill, 
I immediately accounted thus : That Head, or 
Ear, was very large, and flood prominent from 
the Plant, pointing with its Silk Weftward di- 
redly towards the next Hill of Indian Corn ; and 
the Farina , I know, when very ripe, on lhaking 
the Stalk, will fly off in the fineft Duft,fomewhat 
like Smoak. I therefore, with good Reafon, judg- 
ed that a Wefterly Wind had wafted fome few of 
thefe Particles from the other Hill, which had 
light on the Stiles of this Ear, in a Situation per- 
fectly well fitted to receive them, which none of 
the other Ears, on the fame Hill, had. And in- 
deed I admire that there were not more of the 
fame Ear than I found impregnated in the fame 
manner. 
As I was very exad in this Experiment, and 
curious enough in my Obfervations, and this, 
as I have related it, is truly Fad, I think it may 
reafonably be allowed, that notwithstanding what 
M. Geoffroy may have deliver’d of his Trials on 
the fame Plant, I am pofitive, by my Experi- 
ment 
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