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Still neither of them therein Is ftridtly 

 the cafe here, if I make good my enfuing 

 declarations ; and as far as that endeavour 

 of mine will be thought to alter that matter, 

 and to raife new ideas of more general per-* 

 fedtions of the Oak than before it naturally 

 had ^ I accordingly pretend to have made 

 fo conformable a fcrutiny into fome prior 

 unremedied ill properties of that otherwifc 

 moft perfedl plant j on the correfpondency 

 of many effedls, whether artful^ or natural y 

 or accidental to their efficients — That by 

 way of reftification, or remedy, my deter- 

 minate propofitions are not lefs, than by a 

 new manner of dijbranching and other 

 means, to advance fapling Oaks, in our law 

 books called Standils^ and in the wood-* 

 wards phrafe. Weavers — the like fort that 

 were left one fall of the wood before that, 

 Seconds — and the higher fall above the lat- 

 ter, "thirds — namely fuch as were left Stayi- 

 dils two diftindt falls before ; computing fuch 

 intervals at about twelve, or fourteen years : 

 Or elfewhere growing, of the like proporti- 

 on, fo they be not much older in growth, 

 altho' as fmall in fize. 



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