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answering the proportion of inter-columniations : yet 

 in many trees they will not exceed the intermission of 

 the columns in the court of the Tabernacle ; which 

 being an hundred cubits long, and made up by twenty 

 pillars, will afford no less than intervals of five 

 cubits. 



Beside, in this kind of aspect the sight being not 

 diffused, but circumscribed between long parallels and 

 the 7rto-Ktacr/xos and adumbration from the branches, it 

 frameth a penthouse over the eye, and maketh a quiet 

 vision : and therefore in diffused and open aspects, 

 men hollow their hand above their eye, and make an 

 artificial brow, whereby they direct the dispersed rays 

 of sight, and by this shade preserve a moderate light in 

 the chamber of the eye ; keeping the pupilla plump 

 and fair, and not contracted or shrunk, as in light and 

 vagrant vision. 



And therefore Providence hath arched and paved 

 the great house of the world, with colours of mediocrity, 

 that is, blue and green, above and below the sight, 

 moderately terminating the acies of the eye. For 

 most plants, though green above ground, maintain their 

 original white below it, according to the candour of 

 their seminal pulp : and the rudimental leaves do first 

 appear in that colour, observable in seeds sprouting in 



