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a piece of vegetable violence of this kind, 

 which is rather extraordinary. An afli-key 

 rooting itfelf on a decayed willow , and find- 

 ing, as it increafed, a deficiency of nourishment 

 in the mother-plant, it began to infinuate it's 

 fibres by degrees through the trunk of the 

 willow into the earth. There receiving an 

 additional recruit, it began to thrive, and 

 expand itfelf to fuch a fize, that it burft the 

 willow in pieces, which fell away from it on 

 every fide -, and what was before the root of 

 the am, being now expofed to the air, became 

 the folid trunk of a vigorous tree. 



As a beautiful variety of the tree we are 

 now examining, the mountain- aft:, often called 

 the roan-tree, mould be mentioned. It's name 

 denotes the place of it's ufual reiidence^ 

 Inured to cold, and rugged fcenes, it is the 

 hardy inhabitant of the northern parts of this 

 ifland. Sometimes it is found in fofter climes - y 

 but there it generally difcovers by it's {hinted 

 growth, that it does not occupy the fituation 

 it loves. 



In ancient days, when fuperftition held that 

 place in fociety, which diflipation, and impiety 

 now hold, the mountain-am was conlidered 

 as an object of great veneration. Often at 



this 



