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leaves a chafm in the ground, which requires 

 filling up with foil, and then beconaes a fwamp 

 for a confiderable length of time. 



There have been feveral machines invented 

 for the purpofe of drawing roots out of the 

 ground whole. But fuch machines are liable 

 to many objedtions -, they are very expenfive in 

 the conflru6lion, troublefome to move and fix^ 

 and, on account of the great purchafe required, 

 are very fubjeft to be broken. Befides, by tear- 

 ing up a root, a machine makes a greater chafm 

 than by digging it; and, as is very often the 

 cafe, if any thriving timber (lands near that 

 which hath been felled, fuch timber runs the 

 rifk of being fpoiled by the violence of the ma- 

 chine. I knew a gentleman who ufed to blow 

 his roots to pieces in the ground with gunpow- 

 der ; but he often mifled his intention, as the 

 powder frequently forced through fome weak 

 part in the explofionj and I never thought him 

 a great gainer by the pradlice, though fuel isex- 

 ceffively dear in his neighbourhood. 



My m«ethod is as follows : When the tree is 

 felled, 1 leave a fmall quantity of timber in the 

 feat or ftool of the tree, and in that part make a 



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