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the Peafe dilated, yet they did not raife the 
lever, becaufe what they increafed in bulk 
was, by the great incumbent weight, preffed 
into the interftices of the Peafe, which they 
adequately filled up, being thereby formed 
into pretty regular Dodecahedrons. 
We fee in this Experiment the vaft force 
with which fwelling Peafe expand, and ’tis 
doubtlefs a confiderable part of the fame 
force which is exerted, not only in pufhing 
the Plume upwards into the air, but alfo in 
enabling the firfi: (hooting radicle of the Pea, 
and all its fubfequent tender Fibres, to pene- 
trate and (hoot into the earth. 
Experiment XXXIII. 
We fee, in the Experiments of this chap- 
ter, many inftances of the great efficacy of 
attraction ; that univerfal principle which 
is fo operative in all the very different 
works of nature ; and is moft eminently fo 
in vegetables, all whofe minuted parts are 
curioufly ranged in fuch order, as is beft 
adapted by their united force, to attrad pro- 
per nourifhment. 
And we ffiall find in the following Ex- 
periment, that the diffevered particles of 
vegetables, and of other bodies, have a 
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