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iujing'^debarktng — or bark-Jlitting the feve- 

 ral parts of Oaks on proper occafions— It 

 is high time that he be inftrudled which 

 fort he will find the eafieft and moft govern- 

 able Objefts of his pradlice ; and again 

 which will require his greateft ingenuity 

 and attendance to reform. To whom in 

 the latter may not unjuftly be applied, on 

 the event, the tranflation of an Arabian, 

 proverb, uiz, 



Exercens hene^ tngeniim^ Jin male 

 inepttudinem Juam indicahit. 



First then as neither kind have been 

 fufficiently enlarged upon before ^ it fhould 

 be obferved, that the happieft fort and moft 

 complying Oaks with his defigns, are thofe 

 whofe bark may be faid to be comparative-^ 

 ly fmooth and white, or filver coloured and 

 withal pretty thin \ of which pliant confti- 

 tution, not unfrequently thofe are, called 

 Secojids^ in good woodlands ; as likewifq 

 commonly Thirds^ of thofe falls near the 

 intervals fpoken of ; and in all foils of a 

 very homogeneous conftitution, are to be 

 found even many large trees. To thofe 

 moft excellent qualities, I might add that, 



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