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again, that the fadts are true, to which my 

 allegations, or folutions are applied, let the 

 latter be never fo defedlive. 



The firft of the kind mentioned that 

 comes in courfe, is that of a bark-ring ; not 

 any of thofe mentioned by that moft inge- 

 nious and Reverend, Dr. Hales in his ve- 

 getable Statics ; neither cited at leafl: for 

 the like purpofe, nor as I take it occafioned 

 from the fame caufe, This I allude to, be- 

 ing of more m.aterial confequence to the de- 

 barker : The fame here meant being formed 

 by nature, continuous to the body of the 

 tree, at the extremity of the bough debark- 

 ed ; which, as I take it, is fo formed by the 

 following means- — The portion of fap that 

 ufually afcended between the bark and the 

 body of the tree, by correfponding pipes in- 

 to the bough, before it was debarked^ being 

 on the aforefaid operation ftopt, does, by 

 reafon of fuch obftrudtion, employ it felf 

 to form a protuberant circle of bark, clofe 

 and adjoining to the body of fuch tree. See 

 Figure of the Tree. And herein may be 

 obferved no unlike operation, to what na- 

 ture pradiifes in cafes of wounds in animals : 

 For the fap by which this ring is formed, 



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