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own general motions. And what obvioufly 

 occurred to my obfervations thereon, were 

 the gradual tranfitions, nature ufually makes 

 from one thing to another ; whether it be 

 in afcenlion, or declenlion. To inftance 

 in the flow growth, or declination of Be- 

 ings, whether animate or inanimate ; like- 

 wife in many other of her operations; as 

 in the rife and fall of the year ; her foft gra- 

 dation from day, to night, and 'uice verfd. 

 And in many other inflances, how flow her 

 pace, and how deliberate her fleps i for as 

 yet I was got no higher. 



But that my fteps may not be thought 

 much too deliberate in the defcription of my 

 humble imitation of her ; the fpring after I 

 was efl:ablifhed in the foregoing principles ^ 

 A time when the wood born warblers with 

 their mufic fail not to welcome in, the pro- 

 prietors of their verdant Orchejira's : I then 

 projefted in a wood, to deftroy, kill, or 

 mortify the untimely, or too early iflfuing 

 forth of the underboughs, feemingly defti- 

 nated for everlafting arms, of fome fapling 

 Oaks ; by what, I know not how better to 

 exprefs it, than by a lingering — confump- 

 tive — abolition of the faid boughs ; in order 

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