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CHAPTER m. 



TH E ftate and alfo intended manner 

 of my proceeding being before in- 

 timated, it will not be improper to 

 mention an experiment, to corroborate a 

 very material article advanced in the fore- 

 going Chapter : That I may leave no fcru- 

 ples behind unobviated ; v^hich otherwife 

 may be brought in evidence of my v^eak- 

 nefs — inflead of my difplaying the v^ifdom 

 of nature — Wherefore I attempted to make 

 proof ftatically^ v^hether thofe very Oaks laft 

 mentioned, by means of having had their 

 bark-Jlit on bough debarking ; did grov^ the 

 more in their circumference, and latitudinal - 

 girt than otherv^ife they would have done. 

 To be rightly affured of which, I fixt upon 

 fix young Oaks of an equal fize and, as near 

 as I poffibly could, age : All which I girt 

 the fame day, to a mathematical exaftnefs, 

 with a linnen unftretching cord, which 

 fempftrefles call Bobbin, The ends of which 

 being overlaid each other, were held in that 



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