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muft find within the narrow 
compafs of the {pace it occupiés 
every thing which is wanted for it- 
felf, and to fulfil the office which 
Aas been dictated to it by the Au- 
thor of nature. It is obliged ‘to 
{pread the numberlefs filaments of 
its. root through the furrounding 
‘ground, : as fo many fiphons to pump 
up the juice, which prefents itfelf 
_,to thofe filaments; and thefe fila- 
ments are fufficient to afford all 
that the greateft part of trees want 
ip the winter., But, being deftined 
in the fummer-time to more impor- 
rt sifice ‘the | tree fpreads through 
‘the ai air thofe. numberlefs fans, dif- 
pofing. them, in ‘the moft advan- 
‘tageous manner imaginable, to in- 
-curaber each other as little as pof- 
‘fible in pumping from the fur-- 
sepaing: air all that they can ab- 
a forb 
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