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nate the Soil: Being thus, in part, out of their own Refolved Prin~ 
ciples, annually Compounded again. 
11. §. Many of thefe Principles, upon their Refolution, being by 
the Suz more attenuated and volatilized ; continually afcend into 
the Aer, and are mixed therewith. Where, although they lofe not 
their Vezatable Nature, yet beitig amongft other purer Prizeiples; them- 
felves alfo, depofiting their Earthy feculencies, become more fabtile, 
fimple and Effential Bodies. 
12. §. And the Aer being ofan Elastick or Springy Nature, pref- 
fing, more or lefs, uponall Bodies 5 it thereby forceth and infinuateth 
it {elf into the Soil, through all its permeablé Pores, Upon its own 
entrance, it carries alfo many of the faid Vegetable and Effeutial Princi- 
ples along with it; which, together with the reft, are {pread all over 
the Body of the Soil. By which means, thougha lef6 Vehement, yet 
more Subtil Fermentation, and with the leaft advantage of warmth, 
continuable, will be effected. 
13. §. The Principles being thus farther re/alved and fubtilized, 
would prefently exhale away, if the Raiz, again, did not prevent. 
Which,thérefore, falling upon and foaking through the Ground,is as a 
freth Menftruum, faturate or impregnate with many of them. And as 
it {till finketh lower, it carries them along withit felf, from the Su- 
perficial, to the Deeper partsof the Ground : thus,not only maturing 
thofe parts alfo, which, otherwife, would be more lean and cold ; 
but therein likewife, laying up and fecuring a Store, more gradually 
and thriftily to be beftowed upon the Upper parts again, as they need, 
T4. §. And Autume having laid up the Store, Winter following 
thereupon, doth, as it were, lock the doors upon it. In which time, 
fome warmer Intervals,ferve farther and gradually to mature the ftored 
Principles, without hazard of their being Exhaled. And the Spring 
returning, fets the doors open again, with warmer and more con. 
{tant Su, with gentle and frequent Rain, fully refolves the faid Prix 
ciples; and fo furnifheth a plentiful Diet, forall kinds of Vegetables : 
being a Compofition of Water chiefly, wherein are refolved, fome por- 
tions of Earth, Salt, Acid, Oy!, Spirit, and Aer 5 or other Bodies of 
Affinity herewith. 
15. §. THE ROOT ftanding in the Ground thus prepared,and be- 
ing always furrounded with a Barque, which confifteth chiefly of a 
Parenchymous and spongy Body 5 (4)it will thus, as Spoxges do, natu- 
rally fuck up the watry parts of the soil impregnate with the faid 
Principles. Which Principles notwithftanding, being in proportion 
with the watry parts, but few, and alfo more Effntial ; (b) therefore 
in this Parenchymous Part, are they never much difcovered, cither- by 
Colony, Tafte, or Swell. As it is probable, that fome diftilled Waters, 
which difcover nothing, to Senfe, of the Plants from which they are 
diftilled, may yet, in part, retain their Faculties, And it is known, 
that many Bodies 5 as Crocus Metallorum, convey many of their parts 
into the Menfiruam, without any fenfible alteration thereof So Froft 
and Svow have neither Taffe nor Smell; yet from their Figures, ’tis 
evident, that there are divers kinds of saline Principles incorporated 
with thems or at leaft, fich Principles as are common to them and 
divers kinds of salts. 
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