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are very confpicuous^ in cutting 

 both lengthwife and traverfe , they 

 very feldom run one intoanotherg 

 but keep^ like (b many (everal VeP- 

 fels^ all along diftinft 5 as by cut- 

 ting.^ and fo following any one of 

 them as flir as you pleafe., for a 

 Foot or half a Yard ^ or more to-^ 

 gether. may be obferv'd. 



Thefe greater Pores^ though in 

 Wainfcot^ Tables^ and the like^ 

 v/here they have lain long open^ 

 they are but meer Vacuities^ and 

 fo would be thought to contain on- 

 ly <S^^p in the Tree^ and afterwards 

 only Air ; yet upon a frefh cut. 

 ^ each of them may be (een filFdup 

 with a light and fpongie Body. 

 which bvGlafles^ andeven by the 

 bare eye^ appears to be a perfed: 

 p7th':> ibmetimes entir^5 andfome- 

 times more or lefs broken. 



Befides thefe ^ there are a lelTer 

 fort ^ which^ by the hel p of a Mi- 

 crofcope, alfb appear 'if not to be 



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