%6z The Natural Hijlory 



117. Which deception of fight moft certainly arifes from a 

 bow in the middle, which feems only an ornament, and the inca- 

 pacity of the Beholder of feeing both parts of the Walk at one 

 time ; which that it may be the better apprehended, fee the man- 

 ner of it, Tab. 1 3 . Fig. 3 . where the letter a (hews the walk from 

 the garden tending toward that in the Fifi-pond, b the place of 

 the beholder, c the femicircle or bow oppofite to him, d e the two 

 ends of the walk.: Now the beholder being placed in b, and ha- 

 ving the bow before him, is not commonly fo wary as to find,that 

 if the lines fghi were continued, they would decujjate and not 

 fall into straight lines, nor that the walks themfelves would do the 

 fame, becaufe be fees but one ftraight part of the walk b d at 

 one time, and the other b e at another time, which when feen to- v 

 gether at either end, plainly meet in an angle, and by reafon of 

 the fide hedges terminate the fight at little more than half way, 

 at kl. 



1 J 8. Hither alfo belong the methods whereby they order their 

 Woods in this County, which if Vnder-woods in or near the Forreft 

 ofWhichwood, they commonly fell not till twenty years growth ; but 

 in the'Chafe near by it, fomtimes at feven or eight : dividing them 

 into Acres and Braids (or bredths) every Acre containing forty 

 braids, a braid 'being one pole long and four broad ; into which 

 they thus divide their Woods for the better fale of them to the 

 meaner fort of people, fome buying ten, others twenty, and fome 

 thirty braids or more. 



119. In the Chiltern Country they fell their Under-wood Co- 

 pices commonly at eight or nine years growth, but their tall wood, 

 or Copices of which they make talljhids, billet, (src. at no certain 

 time; nor fell they thefe Woods all together,but draw them as they 

 call it, almoft every year fome, according as their wood comes to 

 be of a fit fcantling for tall Jhid or billet, cutting every Jhid of 

 tall wood four foot long befide the kerf, and the billet three foot 

 four inches, according to the Statutes of the 7 of Edw. 6. 7. and 

 the 43 of Q^ Eliz^. 14. which ought alfo according to the fame 

 Statutes, whether round bodyed, half round, or quarter cleft y to be 

 of a certain number of inches about, according as named or mark- 

 ed of fo many Casl, as may be feen particularly in the Statutes at 

 large. Which is all concerning Arts relating to Plants, except 

 it fhall be thought worthy notice, that they ufe ropes in this Coun- 

 try, 



