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as flie untaught any reafon, but from cuftom 

 only does prick with a needle, or pin, an 

 apple intended to be roafted, or a faufage to 

 be fried, to give the juice of the former, or 

 the liquified fat of the latter vent, in gentle 

 exudations : Were fhe taught, that folar fire 

 has no unlike efFed: on the fap of an Oak, 

 altho' a diflimilar effort j fhe would not be 

 long in conceiving the caufe of lateral ger- 

 mens, thro* their natural pinholes. 



I SHOULD, but for the reafons given, afk 

 pardon of the learned for the lownefs of the 

 comparifons. 



CHAR 



