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t)f particular readers. Which having, not- 

 withftanding my general intention otherwife, 

 poffibly been lately the cafe herein ; that I 

 may before I conclude this Chapter, leave 

 none of the loweft, or leaft apprehenfive a- 

 gents, \^4iofe willing attention I have had 

 thus far, in the dark j by reafon of a few 

 paft philofophical terms ; I think I fliall fuf- 

 ficiently evince a compleat performance of 

 giving them a fuitable conftrudlion of the 

 caufes of lateral germens on the body of an 

 Oak, by fhewing — That if they know the 

 effedt of comprelTed air in a defedtive to- 

 bacco pipe, from their flopping one end of 

 the fame, and blov^ing with their mouth 

 -at the other, (and the better if their own 

 ialiva were mixt with it) they may attain 

 a competent conception of the former limilar 

 caufe. 



Even an old woman now a days, whom 

 we will not fuppofe to be as knowing, as 

 ^n antient female Druid, might be thought 

 in this particular cafe ; has a proper notion, 

 in her way, of the efFefts of compreffed air 

 on the like occafion, and even of it's like 

 impulfe, in whatfoever body, or from what- 

 foever caufe it came to be compreiTed 5 and 



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