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Configurations and Cryfiais 
be true or falfe, Cryflalization is like the 
retiring of the Sap into the Roots of Trees 
at the Approach of Winter, where during 
the cold Seafon it remains dormant and 
unaCtive : Configuration refembles what re¬ 
fill ts from the Expansion of the fame Sap 
at the Return of Spring, when excited to 
A&ion by the Sun’s genial Warmth, itpufhes 
every Way, exerts its vegetative Force, 
and becomes productive of Buds, Leaves, 
Branches, Bloffoms and Fruits. But the 
Drawings of one and the other compared 
together and conlidered, will render this 
Difference more intelligible than all the 
Words in Language. 
The beautiful Regularity and Order al¬ 
ways obfervable in the Works of Nature, 
are no where more evident than in the 
Experiments I am mentioning; where the 
invifible Particles of Matter, though difu- 
nited by a Menffruum, and removed to Dif- 
tances from each other, are no fooner ex¬ 
cited to ACtion than they mutually affift 
one another to compofe Figures peculiar 
to their feveral Kinds, with as much Cer¬ 
tainty and Uniformity as Seeds of the fame 
Plant produce Plants like one another, not 
indeed precifely as to the Number or Po¬ 
rtion of their Branches, Leaves or Flowers, 
but in the general Growth and Fafhion, 
and thofe other Particularities whereby each 
Species is diftinguifhed. 1 
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