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from its appearance in the spring being supposed 

 to indicate the proper time for felling the oak trees 

 and remoring the bark or rind from the trunks and 

 branches, an employment in which a considerable 

 portion of the agricultural population of the weald 

 and other woodland parts of the county are en- 

 gaged at this period of the year. The operation 

 of " rinding " cannot be attempted until the sap 

 has begun to flow. Then myriads of minute in- 



titles as a German Prince, the signification of which 

 when indeed they signify anything is frequently derived 

 from some imaginary attribute or peculiarity. 



The object of our researches, and of all communications 

 on this and kindred subjects, ought to be to discover truth, 

 not to propagate error ; to diffuse science, not to dissemi- 

 nate barbarism ; and so far from encouraging the country 

 people in retaining their incomprehensible misnomers, we 

 should take every opportunity of setting them right, point- 

 ing out the salient differences of species, and fixing the 

 proper English names in their minds. We might often 

 derive much useful and valuable information from such 

 people as fishermen, shepherds, woodmen, and game- 

 keepers, which will be either lost to us, or rendered worse 

 than useless, if we are constantly in danger of being misled 

 by gross confusion of names ; and this confusion would be 

 even worse confounded, if the usual designations, accepted 

 and established by competent authority, should be mis- 

 applied to other species than those to which such authority 

 has assigned them. 



