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double clear length they ordinarily grow to, 

 advances their value a full third ? indeed 

 much more- — Which may be thus under- 

 flood, namely, Oaks full fixty, or feventy 

 feet in length, including their capital fpires, 

 whence ilTue their arms y which contain 

 each above a lingle load, but the more, the 

 better j and the main bodies of them clear 

 from ramifications great, or fmall forty foot 

 long, or more ^ will fetch at leaft one third 

 more price than any much jhorter coarje 

 trees of like meafurement. ; either for the ufe 

 of the Shipwright, Carpenter, Cooper, Lath, 

 or Pale render : The truth of which compu- 

 tation, I think no body will go about to 

 deny. 



How then, to train up young Oaks clear 

 in bodies as a warlike fpear ^ far more in 

 number infinitely, than would be otherwife^ 

 and which from accidents hereafter named, 

 would even in good foils be frequently the 

 fhorter and more knotty therein ; fo as to 

 arrive at the fecond bell lengths mentioned ; 

 and again the yet more thrifty and naturally 

 afpiring of themfelves, to the very higheft of 

 all ; is, the bufinefs in chief of the two, or 

 three next enfuing chapters to evidence firft by 

 jpeafon. By 



