470 VEGETABLE GLANDULATION. Nory XDGXIX.

lſap-wood, owes its ſweetneſs I ſuppoſe to a ſimilar di- geſüive power of the abſorbent ſyſtem of the young buds,. This exiſts in many vegetables in great abundance, as in vines, ſycamore, 11... and moſt abundantly in the Palm-tree,(Iſert's Voyage to Guinea,) and ſeems to be a ſimilar fluid in all plants, as chyle is ſimilar in all animals.

Hence as the digeſted food of vegetables conſiſts prin- Cipally of ſugar and from that is produced again their mu- Cilage, Rarchy and vil and face animals.are ſuſtained by theſe vegetable produttions, it would ſeem that the ſugar- making proceſs carried on in vegetable veſſels was the great ſource of life to all organized beings. And that if our EEE chemiſtry mhould ever diſcover the art of making ſugar from foſſile, or aerial. matter without the aſfiſtance T vegetation, food for animals would then be- Come as plentiſul as water, and mankind might live upon the earth as thick as blades of[ graſs, wich no reſtraint to their numbers but the want of local room.

It would ſeem that roots fixed in the earfh, and leaves innumerable waving in the air were neceflary for the de- Compoſition 0 1 and the converſion of it into ſaccha-

but totally ZIN wil- the NS PRNEN of animal bodies.' For how could a man or quadruped have car- ried on. his head or back a foreſt of leaves, or have had Jong ue Jacteal or abſorbent veſſels terminating In the earth? Animals therefore ſubſift on ME EADIESn 1€y take the matter ſo far prepared, and have.