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Having mentioned a very fhort tempo- 

 rary ardour little inferior to a fummer's fun, 

 and the natural confequences on the cafe 

 there inftanced 5 I have lived to record (the 

 cafe rightly coniidered) one in it's effeds of 

 that lafting kind, more than commonly e- 

 qual to a fummer's fun. The fame happen- 

 ing in the Spring 1746, the very infrequent 

 incident of which, being further this — That 

 there not only fell not one fhower of rain 

 little, or much, during the Vv^hole month of 

 May, and a fev^ days alfo, the latter end of 

 April, and a day, or two in June, in the 

 parts I live : But the heat and conftant fun- 

 fliine v/as equal in either, during fuch term, 

 to the greateft MJiival fome fmall inter- 

 vals excepted ^ wherefore altho' before I had 

 caufe to mention only, two different manner 

 of cold feafons as caufes extraordinary of la- 

 teral germens on the bodies of Oaks before 

 clear therefrom, or had been cleared thereof 

 by art ; yet was fuch fingular feafon produc - 

 tive of the germens alluded to, more than 

 either of the other recited. During which 

 whole tim.e alfo, as I carefully obferved, and 

 fome days after the fall of rain ; no Oak 

 young, or old had made the leaft new fhoots 



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