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degree of this natural fluid, or Heat, will become fluid; Water and other liquids will congeal into ice & become a solid mass by withdrawing this same natural fluid. whence it appears Fluids are not essentially made so by the Form or the Sphericity of their Particles, (as most imagine) but by the different degree of the Heat or Cold they are mixed with. W.J.
  In the vessells of every Vegetable, the Heat of the Sun expands the inclosed Air, raises steams from the Earth through the root to a certain Height, and when the night comes, the Cold contracts ^ [[insertion]] both [[/insertion]] the air within, [[insertion]] & [[/insertion]] the [[strikethrough]] vessels [[/strikethrough]] whole vegetable itself into a less space, [[insertion]] & [[/insertion]] presses up the inclosed steam, lodges it at the extremity, and the augmentation is called [[underline]] Growth [[/underline]]. It is evident the moisture is thus forced because the vegetable being cut near the bottom will bleed, which is not the case with a Capillary Tube where it is not so forced. In the winter the Heat of the sun is not generally sufficient to produce this effect, though at the poles it is from a long duration there; consequently all spring or forward plants or those near the poles are very short, because the small degree of the sun's action upon them. On the contrary, all autumnal or latter vegetables and those near the equator are very tall, because the sun has acted upon them with a great degree of heat. Many instances hereof might be produced, as the [[underline]] snow drop [[/underline]] in our climate, and the [[underline]] Cedar [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] at the equator or [[/strikethrough]] in hotter climates, or at the Equator. W.J.
  This steam and Root of a vegetable are exactly similar with the food and stomach of Animals. W.J.
  According to Sir [[underline]] Isaac Newton's [[/underline]] laws of Gravity, the moon should be to the earth just as the earth is to the Sun, in all her motions and laws, except some difference of the same effect; but our earth has a diurnal motion round its own axis, & the moon has no such motion, notwithstanding our earth, has its cause, the power of Gravity, as well as that of the Sun; therefore gravity cannot be the cause of the moon's motions, as laid down by S[i]r Isaac, and the only true and rational cause thereof is this; as our earth is situated in the focus of the moon's Orbit, just as the Sun is in that of the earth's, it is plan, as by S[i]r Isaac's Hypothesis, that the earth must act with all its capable power, upon the moon, under the very same laws as the Sun acts upon our Earth, but our earth is not a body of fire, that continually sends forth streams of light like the sun; and so is deprived of the powerful [[strikethrough]] agent [[/strikethrough]] effect, the emission of light; which experiments verify to be the sole cause of a body's moving round its own axis, and the earth cannot give a power with is has not; Therefore the moon cannot have a motion round her own axis. W.J. from Dr. Grew. F.R.S. -- My objection to