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of but a moderate cloathing of mofs, toge- 

 ther with the invifihle charadleriftic, and 

 undiftinguifliable at fight, but from the ill 

 confequences of the contrary ; that the bark 

 of fuch be of a difunion (if I may fo call 

 it) with the adjoining wood, I mean not too 

 clofely adhaerent, or contiguous to the body 

 of the Oak, as before in part hinted. 



It is very certain that in all healthful 

 Oaks, the conftrudtion of their neareft parts, 

 by which I fhould rather fay the tubltous 

 parts between either, is fuch, as to be ex- 

 tendible, fupple, and yielding to the crowd 

 and prefTure of the annual rings of wood, 

 which nature forms on the outer circum- 

 ference of fuch trees : With referv^e ftill 

 of a fufficient vacuity in the intcrftice be^ 

 Iween bark and wood, for fuch fap as is 

 deftined to afcend into the head. Again-— ^ 

 in union with which afpiring fap, I mufl 

 further add reception likewife in fuch va^ 

 cuities for the fap extraordinary propelled 

 thereinto occafionally, from the inward ho- 

 rizontal infertiona, fee Dodlor Crew's Plate, 

 Laftly — when afcended ; an adaequate em^ 

 ployment thereof, without obflxudlion, ia 

 the head of the trees und leaves ^ in order 



that 



