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new- form’d Egg or firft-fet Fruit in this Infant-Hate, 
“ to imbibe Nourifhment fulTicient for it felf, and the 
Fcetm with which it is impregnated : Which Nou- 
“ rifnment is brought within the reach and power of 
“ its Sudlion by the adjoyning Leaves, 
“ If I may be allow’d to indulge Conjeiflure (In a 
Cafe, in which the moft diligent Inquirers are as 
“ yet, after all their laudable Refearches, advanced 
“ but little farther than meer Conjedure) I .would 
propofe it to their confideration, whether from the 
“ manifefl: Proof we have that Sulphur ftrongly at- 
trad’s Air, a hint nfay not be taken to confider whe- 
“ ther this may not be the primary ufe, of the Farina 
“ fcecundansy to attrad and unite with it felf elaftick 
or other refin'd adive Particles. 
‘‘ That this Farina abounds with Sulphur, and that 
“ a very refin’d fort, is probable from the fubtil Oil 
“ which Chymifts obtain from the Chives of Saffron.’ 
“ And if this be the ufe of it, was it pofiTible 
** that it could be more aptly placed for the 
“ purpofe on very movable Apices fixed on the flender 
“ Points of the Stamina^ whereby it might eafily with 
“ the lead breath of Wind be difperfed in the Air, 
“ thereby furrounding the Plant as it were with an At- 
“ mofphere of fublimed fulphureous Pounce ? For many 
“ Trees and Plants abound with it 5 they may be per- 
“ haps infpir’d at feveral parts of the Plant, and efpe- 
“ dally at the Piflillum, and be thence conveyed to 
“ the Capfula /eminalis, efpecially towards Evening; 
“ and in the Night, when the beautiful Petala of the 
“ Flowers are clofed up, and they, with all the other 
“ parts of the Vegetable, are in a ftrongly imbibing 
“ date. And if to thefe united fulphureous and aerial 
Particles we fuppofe fome Particles of Light to be 
“ joyned (for Sir Ifaac l^ewton has found that Sulphur 
“ attrads 
