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CHAPTER IV. 



I Have yet to offer in cafe of need, and 

 in order to mitigate an irkfome pere-= 

 grinatlon thro* this fabjecl, that it is 

 ufual for travellers in paths but httle beaten 

 to think the ways tirefome and Idng. But 

 fuch have the habpinefs to be able here., 

 to take up in what part of the road they 

 pleafe 5 as alfo that every ftage v/lU grow 

 eafier and eafier. For my own part, it is 

 now not more from promife, than with 

 pleafure, I am Come to £hew an eafier man-^ 

 ner of deftroying the whole fpecies of la- 

 teral germens, of fuitable fizes, iffiiing often 

 from, or on the bodies of Oaks, different 

 from my firft effay. And that favourite 

 Specific is a Contufion of the fame with a 

 hamtner, whereby I have had extraordinary 

 fuccefs. What, befide the infufficiency of 

 the former before mentioned, gave the firft 

 rife to this experiment, was the difficulty I 

 found and the time it took in removing; 



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