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other adjunft caufes of fuch lateral germens : 

 As firft — That the uncommon exhalations 

 caufed by an over-violent heat outwardly of 

 the fun, may render the moifture in the 

 leaves of an Oak, of as firm a compofition 

 as glue, and their little pores impervious to 

 more influx of fap : or — That fuch parts may 

 be fo confolidated by honey-dews, by which 

 a refiftance being caufed to a frefh acceffi- 

 on, and recruit of more tenuious liquids, the 

 faid mifchievous confequences may enfue. 



I WAS not at firft intending to write, void 

 of the apprehenfion, that where an effemi- 

 nate life has attached a very low idea of the 

 import of refearches of this kind ; that I 

 fhall not efcape being thought impertinent 

 herein, and not to be wholly free from the 

 charge of too nice prolixity by others, till 

 they come to difcern their full tendency ^ till 

 which I fhall run further in truft for pardon 

 with fuch, by enlarging on the like caufes 

 and effedls. My confequential procefs where- 

 on, being, my fuller reflections on the north- 

 ern and eafl:ern winds frequently breaking in 

 on the bland Zephyrs of the fpring, till pi- 

 tying heaven unfixes the varying Scene % 

 whereon we fail not to find that a forcible 

 G 2 reflrainc 



