34 ° Of Vegetation, 
whofe leg-bone was then two inches long, 
and with a fharp pointed Iron at half an inch 
diftaace I pierced two fmall holes through the 
middle of the fcaly covering of the leg, and 
fhin-bone ; two months after I killed the 
Chick, and upon laying the bone bare, I 
found on it obfcure remains of the two 
marks I had made at the fame diftance of 
half an inch : So that that part of the bone 
had not at all diftended lengthwife, fince 
the^ime that I marked it : Notwithftanding 
the bone was in that time grown an inch 
more in length, which growth was moftly 
at the upper end of the bone, where a won- 
derful provifion is made for its growth at the 
joining of its head to the (hank, called by 
Anatomifts Symphyjis. 
And as the bones grow in length and lizc ; 
fo mult the membranous, the mufcular, the 
nervous, the cartilaginous and vafcular fibres 
of the animal body neceflarily extend and ex- 
pand, from the dudile nutriment which na- 
ture furnilhes every part withal ; in which re- 
fpeds animal bodies do as truly vegetate as do 
the growing vegetables. Whence it mult needs 
be of the greateft confequence, that the grow- 
ing animal be fupplied with proper nourilh- 
ment for that purpofe, in order to form a 
ftrong 
