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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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Ter, Than cither oF the Mints in EI Or T, Whose  purgins, another astringent. In briet, Thac chere Moule
Nacex Wwas the very Came wich chat in L, bur hac
be thac vast difterence in chem, in cheir leverat
none oF chac Parch mixed vich ic, vec in a Morr Constirutions, Mates, Properties, and tiffects, and
time, ehe Plane noc only overrock, buc much oue
Erive those; and at the end oF che Experimenc
was rery considerabis bisser and tcarier chan ei
chec oF them.
Inlitce manner, iHe Mint in N, tho lets in che
becimnins chan chat in MI, being ser in har thict
rurbid, fecuient Water thac remained behind, after
thac Wherein M WvaS Placed was silled of, had in
tine more than double is original Weighe and
Bulk; and receired abore tvice che additiona
Fncrease chac ehat in NI, Wvhich Aood in chinner
distilled Water, haddone: And, which is nor lel
considerable, had noc draon of half che quan
tirs ot Wacer chac that had.
Nhy, in che beginmine ot this Aricle, F limi
che Proxorrion oEche Ausmene oF the Plant, torhe
Quancier ot the proper Terrestrial Macrer in che
Nater, is, Because all, even che resetable Matrer
E0 Cay nochins OFThe Mineral, IS NOE PTOPEF FOrFhC
Wourishiment oF erery Plant.
There may be, and doubrless are, some Parrs ir
different Species oF Planrs, tharmar be muct alitce
anci O oe cheir Supply ro thelame common Mat
ter: Buc eis plain, all cannor. And chere are orter
Parrs (0 disterine, thac ris no ways crediblecher
Ehould be formed all our of the lame Porr ot Corpus
cles: S0 tar From ic, tharthere ane noc go0d In
dications, as We Mall sec by and bY, Thac ererr kinc
OF resetable requires a peculiar and specitick Matte
LF iis Formarion and Nourithmene; rea, cach pari
oF the Came Vecetable does o; and there are verr
many and differene Ingredients 50 ro the Composi
tion of the lame indiriduat PlanE.
Htrheretore the Soil, wherein any Vegetable o
Seed is planted, conrains all or most ot chese In
Gredienes, and chole in due Ouanciey, rwill gron
and chrire chere; ochermise tvill nor. IF chere
DC nOE aS manz POrE OF Corpuscles, 25 are requisire
For the Constitution ot che main and more essentia
Pares oF the Planc, evill noc prosper ac aII. J.
There be chele, and noc in sufficient plener, twil
Scarre, and never arrire tO itS natural Stature. O
it ehiere be any the sels necessary and essential C Or.
pulcles wancins, chere will De Pome Failure in che
Plant; will be defectire in Faste, in Smell, in C0.
lour, or Lome orher Way.
But tho the CTacCO LaH IIIaS HaPPen nOE cC
contain proper Nouristimene For che Consticuriono
Pome one peculiat kind oF Plant; ver it may for
several orhers, and chole much disterins amone
themselves.
herc.)
vet all arise from che very lame sort oF Matter
vould be very Atrange. And, ro Nore chat by che
br, ehis Argumene makces equally Arons against
chole wrho suppose mere Water che Matter our ot
Wrhich all Bodies are Formed.
The Catapuria, in the Gla(S F, received BuE very
licle Fncreale, ony chree Grains and an haIF all
the wrhile it RoOd, tho 25OY Cr. OE Water vere
spene upon it. L Will nor Pay the reason Was, BC.
cause che Water did noc contain in ic Matrer A
and proper For rhie Nouristment ot thac peculiar
and remarkable Plant. No, ic may be, the WVacer
Was noc a prover Medium For ic to sro in: And
we lno, chereare rerrmans Planes chac ill nor
chrireinie
To0 muck OF Chat Liquor, in lome Plants, may
probably hurer che Terrestrial Macrer chro cheir
Vessels t0o fast Tor them ro arrest and lay hold OE
it. Be chat as ic will, tis most certain, Phere arC
reculiar Soils chac suit particular Planes
In Fnsland, Cherries are obserred to succeed best
in Rent; Apples in Peresorastire; Sassron in Cam-
bridestoire; Woad in cro or three ot our Midlana
Counties; aud Teazles in Somorsetstire. This is an
Obserration thac hachheld in all Parrs, and indeed
in aIl Ases oltheWontd. The most ancient WVri
ters oF Fusbandry took NoricC OF ic; and are nOL
ancins in cheir Rules, For malcins choice oF soit
fuited eo che Nature oF each kind oF Vesetable they
thoughe raluable or orch Propasacins
Buc, erhich is a Further Proot oF Whar Lam here
endearourins to Adranee, That Soil chat is once
proper and sc for Production ot some one (Ort ol
Vecetable, does noc erer continue to be (0. No, in
ctact oF Time, ic loles that Property; buc soonet
in lome Lands, and later in Orhers. This is what
all, vrho are converlant inchele Thinss, Hnou very
avell.
IE rbeat Tor Fxample, be sonnuxon a Tract
OF Land thac is proverFor rhac Grain, the first Crop
Will succced very vell, and perhaps the second, and
the thira, 25 lons as che Cround is in Feart, a5
the Farmers Speak: Buc in a fer Tears Twill pro.
duce no more, il sowed wich chat Corn. Some
ocher Grain indeed ic maz, as Barler. And alter
this has been sovon (0 otcen, thac che Land can
brins Forth no more of the same, ic may alterwards
riela lome sood Oars, and perhaps Pease attet
them: ac lensth trill become Barren; che Veceta-
sive Marter chat ac sirst ir abounded withal, beins
reduced forrh oF it by those successive Crops, anc
mostof ir born OH. Fach Porr ot Grain cakes Forch
thac peculiar Matrer that is proper For iis ovn
Nouristmen. First che Wbeat dras oR chole
Particles char suit che Body oF thaE Plant, che rest
Irins all quiet and undisturb d che while. And when
che Farrh has vielded ux aIl them; those chat are
Proper For Barley, 2 disserent Grain, remain sil
Behind, rill the successire CrOpS OF That Corn Fetct
them FOrtH 10O: And (0 the Oars and Pease in their
eurn, eill in sine all is carried ort, and che Farch in
a greac meature drained oE chac Cort oE Mar-
TCt.
AEcer all Wvtrich, thac very Lract ot Land may
be broughe eo produce anocher series oF the Pame
Vecetables, bur nerer rill’eis supplied wich a new
contained. This Supply is made sereral Wways. B.
Eain
TheVeselr l’articles are commixt and blendes
in EhC FarE, Wh aII ehe diversur alte rates, do
Wvell a5 all ene ancercaines comcetracte. IL hare
siren loite menmations oF this in Nat. TTist. of tho
Farth, PaSC 228, 9c. and MaII nOE repeat them
Te is nor postiblero imagine, bon ono, uniform
Bomogeneous Master, harins its Principles dr originat
Parrs all oF che lame Substance, Constitution, Mag
nicude, Firure, and Gravity, Mhould ever constiture
Bodies (0 cxregiousr untitce, in all chole respects,
25 Vecetables oF ditterene kinds are; nay, cven 25
the ditterent parrs oF the lame Vezetable: Phat one
Mould Carry a Rosinous, anocher a Milter, a chird a
Tellom, 2 Fourch a Red fuice in ies Veins; one aF-
Ford a fracrant, anocher an ofsensive Smell; one be Fund OE Matrer oF che like lore with chat it at Ars
sveetro che Paste, anocher bitter, acid, acerb, austere, ecc.
Chac one deoula benoncishins. anochee poisonon one une crouadio lyime Palon lo tome cme, il cle