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I COME next to fhew caufe for a more 

 than ordinary plain and intelligible ftile ; as 

 I defign this tradt moftly, for a manual for 

 the fubordinate agents of Oak proprietors, 

 that fhall think fit to put my rules in exe- 

 cution. And as fuch agents are likely many 

 times to be left to themfelves, I think it 

 neceflary, whatever circumlocution I make 

 ufe of, that they be inftrudled in every ob- 

 vious appendant to their employment — in 

 each circumftantial inducement to adlion- — 

 in every ground of fuccefs, or difappoint- 

 ment — even in all parts of the practice that 

 is explainable to their mother fenfe, from 

 vifible appearances — Which will fave the 

 wood proprietor himfelf much trouble, if I 

 had only left him to be their inftrud;or, by 

 difcuffing fuch matters written wholly in a 

 phyfical form. It is for this reafon alfo that 

 I have proceeded on the moft obvious prin-^ 

 ciples^ — ^framed my pofitions as far as I am 

 able to vulgar apprehenfion — and with, phra- 

 feology, as before intimated^, to low capaci- 

 ties. — • 



Ye t I do not intend my manner fo abjedt 

 thro'out, but that I may hope, tho* not de- 



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