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of the fupervening afflux of more ; which 

 now mull be called a redundancy — And 

 the whole having neither leifure nor power, 

 fufficient to extend the capillary velTels above 

 for an adaequate reception, which were as 

 full as they could hold before — ^my head, 

 which was nothing fo full of fenfe, ftill be- 

 gan to conclude, that under fo great ne- 

 ceffitous diftrefs and as it were teeming la- 

 bour of the fap, fo great might reafonably 

 be the elaftic power thereof, and fo violent 

 the force of the rarified air therein; that 

 like as an impetuous current that is ftopt in 

 one place breaks out in another 3 fo likewife 

 the fap in that cafe muft and will find new 

 vents 'y which commonly prove to be la- 

 teral ; and throw out there, under the di- 

 reftion of nature, in fome parts fingle ger- 

 mens, and in others fo copious, as to re- 

 femble a Virgultum 5 whofe future fubfift- 

 ence upon an eftimate would be found equi- 

 valent to the boughs cut off. This neceffity 

 of nature on a further refleftion appeared the 

 more evident to me, that, if this did not 

 happen on fuch arbitrary loppings^ the cafe 

 would ftill be the worfe with fuch tree — 

 For either thereupon, by an occafional ftrong 

 rarefaftion and ebullition of the fap, and the 



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