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I HOPE I may be excufed, having fo 

 largely treated on fome of thefe circumftan- 

 tials, as likewife continuing fo to do, as it 

 was a maxim of the Honourable Mr. Boyky 

 That there ought to be a recognition of 

 all thofe ways which in any particular 

 cafe, nature can be known to operate, 

 in order to define thereupon determinate 

 txnthr 



It comes next in place to fubjoin the other 

 difafter, incident after my debarking ; and 

 which I obferved many years ago : After the 

 Gaklings in the fpring had fhot out fix inches 

 at leafi? : The extremities of which fhoots, 

 with the infant leaves, upon one night's £harp 

 froft, turned as black as ink : Whence the 

 like ifiiie as in the former cafe enlbed, viz, 

 petty ramifications laterally. 



And fuch accidents as here mentioned, 

 would have proved great evils indeed, could 

 there have been found no fafer expedient ta 

 take off the lower parts of fuch twigs, which 

 were not abfolutely perifhed by fuch a froft, 

 than by hook — hatchet ^ &c. For the lower 

 end of the ramufculi alluded to, being in 



a living 



