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without a circulation, arifes from hence, 
*viz. that it is too precipitate a courfe, for 
a due digeftion of the fap, in order to nu- 
trition : Whereas in animals nature has pro- 
vided, that many parts of the blood fliall 
run a long courfe, before they are either 
applied to nutrition, or difcharged from the 
animal. 
But when we confider, that the great 
work of nutrition, in vegetables as well as 
animals, (I mean after the nutriment is got 
into the veins and arteries of animals) is 
chiefly carried on in the fine capillary vef- 
fels, where nature feleCts and combines, as 
fhall beft fuit her different purpofes, the fe» 
| vcral mutually attracting nutritious particles 
| which were hitherto kept disjoined by the 
I motion of their fluid vehicle 5 we fhall find 
that nature has made an abundant provifion 
for this work in the ftrufture of vegetables; 
all whole compofition is made up of nothing 
elfe but innumerable fine capillary veffels, 
and giandulous portions or veficles. 
Upon the whole, I think we have, from 
thefe experiments and obfervations, fuffici- 
ent ground to believe that there is no cir- 
culation of the fap in vegetables 5 notwith- 
standing many ingenious perfons have been 
induced 
