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improportioned, — can by girting to a great 

 degree fuch creatures bellies, and by an 

 uncommon friftion upon the defedive part, 

 thence attain a greater accretion of flefli 

 therein. Divers more inftances might be 

 brought from other parts of nature to ftrength- 

 en this argument. But I let the fame con- 

 clufively reft here, from the ftrength it has 

 acquired from what has been' mentioned : 

 Craving only leave to infert two fentences 

 out of Cicero^ in reference to art and ar- 

 tifts.— 



" Artium alhid ejufmodi genus e/l^ ut 

 tantummodo animo rem cernat^ aliud ut 

 " moliatur alt quid et faciatr 



The other is — Artis maxime proprtum 

 " ejl^ creare et gignere" 



But I fhall not truft to fimiles of my 

 ov^^'n, or the axioms of others, to fupport 

 the credit of fo effential a means to recom- 

 mend and prove the fuccefs of this grand 

 affiftant — bark-Jlitting, to debarktJig : Which 

 will both remedy the expanfive force of the 

 polar particles of the fap in the body of a 

 young Oak, from getting an unnatural vent 



thro- 



