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Rh jut now. And what Nourihment, what manner of Growth hall we allow them? Probably, there can be no better, nay no other, than what we have here experience; by having their Roots fatned into the Earth, and imbibing its nourihing Juices by their tender Fibres. And that they may not be only like o many bare Heaths, with nothing but creeping Shrubs and Buhes, we may allow them ome nobler and loftier Plants, Trees, or omewhat like them: Thee being the greatet, and, except Waters, the only Ornament that Nature has betowed upon the Earth. For not to peak of thoe many ues that are made of their Wood, there’s no one that is ignorant either of their Beauty or Pleaantnes. Now what way can any one imagine for a continual Production and Succeion of thee Plants, but their bearing Seed? A Method o excellent, that it’s the only one that Nature has here made ue of, and o wonderful, that it eems to be deigned not for this Earth alone. In fine, there’s the ame reaon to think that this Method is oberved in thoe di-

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