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(liquid hold. But can this be faid of our polypi? 
Where is that proportion between a little configu- 
rated jelly, and the mafs of matter faid to be their 
work ? What is depofited in the cells they form ? 
What makes others folid ? And how do thefe jellies 
fo wonderfully difpofe the fine arrangement of pores, 
fibres, nodes, branches, &c. ? And to what purpofe, 
if they could be luppofed capable of it ? In a word, 
I humbly purpofe to fum up this eflay in two general 
fentiments ; and thefe will be the rule, by which I, 
for my own part, (hall always judge of things of 
this nature ; viz. 
1. Whatever bodies (hall be found to carry the 
appearances and charadteridic marks of vegetables ; 
even tho’ animals are found upon them, they cer- 
tainly will pafs with me for fuch, till ftronger evi- 
dence (hall evince the contrary. And, 
2. I (hall ever expedt to fee, at lead, a feeming 
power, proportion, and (lability, in animals, to ren- 
der them capable of performing what they may be 
thought to have done. I am, 
S I R, 
With the utmod refpedt. 
Yours and the Society’s 
mod obedient fervant, 
J. Parfons. 
Ttt 
Lxxxvir. 
