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Notwithstanding this fulnefs of col- 

 ledled matter^ as it fo defervedly challenges 

 a place ; I fhall probably, by way of conclufi- 

 on, add, according to my beft endeavour, 

 moil of the political arguments pro and con 

 on the prefent indifcriminate pradice, in 

 many parts of England of wood-grubbing : 

 Which with a few, I hope, allowable di- 

 greffions, together with the means of the 

 reader^s coming, if need, at the full convic- 

 tion of the pretended fuccefs of the experi- 

 ments to be mentioned, is, the prefent in- 

 tended fummary of this treatife — Unlefs a 

 poftfcript fhould be added. 



Now, as fo general an altitudinal propor- 

 tion of Oaks with clear bodies, and all other 

 their defirable properties, attainable by artful 

 means alone, is, in this age, moft likely of 

 all the articles I have mentioned, to fubjed: 

 me to a covert fufpicion of my being there- 

 in hyperbolical, from a natural impetus, that 

 many older writers have been found to be 

 carried away with, in order to fet their fa- 

 vourite propofitions, as they thought, in the 

 better light ; I fhall therefore, before I enter 

 on the culture of the minor offsprings of 



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