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tary and indefealible right of oppolition to 

 their fond purpofes.— So as to eftablifh uni- 

 verfally the mifconceprion of fome unaltera- 

 ble and neceflary opponent motion to their 

 defigns, impreffed thereon at the creation— 



Yet never thelefs among the many other 

 things in terrseculture, which time has 

 brought to Hght ; I have taken upon me to 

 evidence, that wc have it entirely in our 

 pov/er, both to amend the moft orderly and 

 regular, as well as to correal the diforder- 

 ly motions of the fap in the younger fort 

 of growing Oaks 3 and even in fome meafure 

 to red;ify the part irregularities of the old— 

 And further I am fo exprefs, as to maintain, 

 that, there is not the leaft indocility in any 

 one thriving young Oak, to the laws of me* 

 chanifm — no innate averfion to human art- 

 no unalterable felf proclivity, or indepen- 

 dency in the form of it's vegetating— and 

 nothing like an inherent prerogative of it's 

 being therein a free agent — But that all the 

 before feeming untoward oppofition and dif- 

 affected qualities in it*s nature, to our part 

 wifhes and even baffled trials 5 proceeded 

 pnly from it's before veiled perfonal and na- 

 tural impotence, inward and outward— from 



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