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mote that general tendency to cor- 
ruption which all dead bodies of the 
animal and vegetable kingdom, and 
many other fubftances, are fo liable 
_ to, the trees difplay in a few days 
the moft wonderful fcene that can 
be imagined. Contracted as they 
-were in that itate of ftupor and in- 
activity in which they remain during 
the winter, expofing to the air no 
other furface than that of their 
trunk and branches, as if they ~ 
wanted to have as little to do as pof= 
fible with the external ‘airy, they: all 
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a thoufand times, their furface by 
difplaying thofe kind of numberlefs 
fans which we call leaves. Some 
~of them produce their leaves a long 
while before any flowers appear 
upon them; others a good while 
after the flowers are formed, and 
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