2 - 5 2 Of Seeds. 
So Adam’s Loins contain’d his large Poflerity, 
All People that have been, and all that e’er fnall be. 
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A^mazing Thought! what Mortal can conceive 
Such wond’rous Smallnefs!—Yet we mull believe 
What Reafon tells : for Reafon’s piercing Eye 
Bifcerns thofe Truths our Senfes can't defcry. 
1 hope to be excufed for borrowing the 
Lines above from a little Poem of my own* 
called j the Univerfe , publiibed fome Years 
ago ; as they contain a Suppolition, which, 
however chimerical it may appear at hrft, 
will, if duly confidered, be found, perhaps* 
not only poffible, but even highly proba¬ 
ble: Malpighi, Leeuwenhoek, Hooke* 
Grew, and feveral others bear Witnefs, that 
the Microfcope has difcovered minute Plants 
not only-in the larger Seeds, fuch as the 
Walnut, Chefnut, Acorn, Beechnut, Seed 
of the Lime, Cotton-Seeds, Peafe, &c. but 
alfo in the fmaller of Radifh, Hemp, Cher¬ 
vil, Scurvy-grafs, Milliard, and Multitudes 
of other Seeds. About two Years ago, I 
likewife had the Honour to prefent the DIG 
fedtion of a Seed of the Gramen tremulum , 
or trembling GrajP with an Account there¬ 
of, to the Royal Society , wherein a perfect 
Plant appeared, with its Root, fending forth 
two Branches, from each of which feveral 
Leaves or Blades of Grafs proceeded. Thus 
far our Sight, aflifled by the Microfcope » 
is able to difcover : and as that Inff rumen t 
■ ' ' • " convinces 
