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Having mentioned one only 

 manner of hark-Jlitting the bo^ 

 dies of Oaks, i^iz. in long con* 

 tinned perpendicular flits from 

 near the top to near the bottom, 

 in three or four pretty equal dif- 

 tances 3 I think fit to mention 

 in this place, a different form^ 

 and not the leafi: unfightly, 

 which I have pra6tifed with e- 

 qual fuccefs, and which I think 

 comes nearer nature in the 

 figures of the fiffures fhe her felf 

 makes in the bark ^ as here ad- 

 joining defcribed. The faid flit» 

 being fhort and many, and per- 

 formed quite round each tree, 

 in fafhion which has no unapt 

 refemblance to the figure exhi- 

 bited : Altho' there is no need 

 of a mathematical exaftnefs. 



Having alfo given the agent a gene- 

 ral intimation of the manner — ufes — and 

 caufes of his labour— and a fuflicient know* 

 ledge of the phyfical effects of either con- 



