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by the pofition and fhape of its 

 Pores 5 principally groweth in 

 length 5 yet will it in Ibme degree 

 likevvife in breadth ; For it can- 

 not be iiippofed that the puTQ{iiSap 

 is all received into the (aid Pores 5 

 but that rart thereof hkewife, ftav- 

 ing about its Snperficid ptrts^ is 

 there tindur'd and agglutinated to 

 them. And beca^afe thele Pores 

 are prolonged by its length ^ there- 

 fore is it much m.ore laxe and ealily 

 divifible that way 5 as in flitting a 

 Sticky or cleaving of Timber^ and 

 in cutting and hewing them a.^ 

 thwart is alfo leen. Whence it 

 comes to pafs^that in (hooting from 

 the Center towards the Circumfe- 

 rence^ and there finding more 

 room^ its faid original Laxity doth 

 eafily in divers places now become 

 greater^ aud at length in open 

 Partments plainly vifible. Betwixt 

 which Partments^ the cortical Bo- 

 dy^ being bound in on the one 



hand'. 



