^5 3 The Conclufion. 
the Capfula feminalis, efpecially towards 
evening, and in the night when the beautiful 
Tetala of the flowers are clofed up, and they, 
with all the other parts of the vegetable, are 
in a ftrongly imbibing ftate. And if to thefe 
united fulphureous and aereal particles we 
fuppofe fome particles of light to be joined, 
(for Sir Ifaac Newton has found that fulphur 
attrafts light ftrongly) then the refult of 
thefe three by far the moft active principles 
in nature, will be a Tun6hm Salens to in- 
vigorate the feminal plant : And thus we are 
at laft conducted, by the regular Analyfis o e 
vegetable nature, to the firft enlivening prin- 
ciple of their minuteft origin. 
E have from the foregoing Experi- 
ments many proofs of the very great 
and different quantities of moifture imbibed 
and pcrfpired by different kinds of Trees, 
and alfo of the influence the feveral ftates 
of the air, as to warm or cold, wet or dry, 
have on that perfpiration. We fee alfo what 
ftores of moifture Nature has provided in the 
Earth againft a dry feafon, to anfwer this 
great expence of it in the production and 
fupport of vegetables ; how far the dew can 
The Conclufion. 
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