the Qttle, they had come to that Stature I 

 then faw them. I ihall only add a Suppofition 

 of my own, that it might probably be from 

 thofe Knots which grow thick on Elms, ra- 

 ther than the common Chips, or from fome 

 Seminalia lodg'd in the furrow'd Coat of Elms, 

 and undifcoverable to common Obfervation. 



Sect. V. 



Of Kaiftng Trees by Artificial Methods^ 

 as A'vnlfion^ Arcuation^ &c. 



Sunt alii quos ipfe via fibi rcperit Ufus. 



Virg, Geo. 2. 



Others there are, by late Experience, found, 



Dryden. 



WHICH Methods he feems to divide in- 

 to fix Parts, tho' the Interpreter Ru^z- 

 w, and from him Mr. Dry den makes feven, 

 dividing the fecond into two ^ againft which 

 I fhall not contend, feeing neither of them 

 are of any great Ufe, but (hall pafs them o- 

 ver haftily, that I may have the more Time 

 on the fourth, (m.) Arcuation, which per- 

 forms all the reft, and that much eafier and 

 better. But to proceed : Hisfirft Method is. 



Hie 



