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thro* the tranfverfe defiles of the bark, opw 

 pofite to the horizontal veffels in the main 

 wood— And aifo promote the greater en- 

 creafe of latitudinal wood., or in other words, 

 a larger circumference of the bodies of fuch 

 trees— 



I ROPE by this time, It is needlefs for 

 me to avow it to be my earneft endeavour 

 to familiarife the leaft fhew of difficulty to 

 nil forts of agents ; that as my pretended 

 doings are not dreams, fo their difclofure 

 may not be darknefs. Of which however 

 what writer can be affured ? Too many 

 Uiore experienced pens than mine, having 

 but darkly expreft that to others, which wa& 

 poffibly clear to themfelves in conception, 

 and that upon no very uncommon fubje<fls. 

 A man's own written words, however ill 

 chofen, may likely refleS the fam.e internal 

 images in his mind, when read again at fo 

 great a diftance of time that the former 

 were forgotten. But he cannot be fure, let 

 them be never fo appofite, that the fame 

 charadlers will convey altogether as homo-- 

 geneous ideas to others. And the matter 

 is ftill more improbable, where any num- 

 ber of words are above the underftanding 



