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CHAPTER II. 



NO W before I enter on the Specific 

 education, that I have to recom^ 

 mend of the young princes of the 

 woods alluded to j I think it a neceflary pre- 

 liminary thereto, to difclofe what former 

 difcipline has mifcarried, and wherefore, in 

 order to advance the general comelier afped 

 —more longitudinal cxtenfion— and more 

 ufeful forms of their bodies in time to 

 come— 



I SHOULD have avoided calling in quefti- 

 on again, the name of fo truly worthy a 

 gentleman, as Mr. Evelyn^ were it not that 

 he was one of the moft enterpriling, and 

 withal creditable naturalift that way, of his 

 time ; and therefore alfo that the fum and 

 fubftance of the opinions of his moft know- 

 ing cotemporaries, may be coUedted out of 

 his writings, on almoft all vegetable fub- 

 jefts. And indeed the lame whether on 

 the Green boufe, or the Melomere, the Gar^ 



deny 



