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vy$ And this we rather think to be the 

 Tree mentioned in the Canticles, which 

 ftrifter Botanology will hardly allow to 

 be Campbire. 



And if delight or ornarnentall view 

 invite a comely difpofure by circular 

 amputations, as is elegantly performed 

 in Hawthorns ; then will they anfwer 

 the figures made by the con verfion of a 

 Rhombus, which maketh twoconcen- 

 tricall Circles $ the greater circumfe 

 rence being made by the lefler angles,the 

 lefler by the greater. 



The Cylindrical figure of Trees is vir 

 tually contained and latent in this order* 

 A Cylinder or long round being made 

 by the conversion or turning of a Paral 

 lelogram, and moft handlomely by a 

 long fquare, which makes an equall, 

 Itrong and lafting figure in Trees, agree 

 able unto the body and motive parts of 

 animals, the greateft number of Plants, 

 and almoft all roots, though their (talks 

 be angular, and of many corners, which 

 (eem not to follow the figure of their 

 Seeds ; Since many angular Seeds fend 

 forth round (talks, and fphzricall feeds 



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