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mlfing of being much affifted by him. They 

 are firft, fuch, (to fufpend here a relation of 

 all the caufes) whofe bark is ordinarily rug- 

 ged, or deep furrowed — and black, or tend- 

 ing thereto — whofe laft year's ftioots, altho' 

 a following wet feafon, are extreamly fhort 

 — and a further diagnoftick of their infani- 

 ty, is, that their bark adheres almoft as 

 clofely to the outer ring of v/ood, and flicks 

 thereon comparatively as faft, as a bullock's 

 hide to the flefh — -which is the reafon that 

 fome of that fort will not run, as the phrafe 

 is, in barking time, at leafh not kindly. The 

 ftore of fap collefted in the whole winter, 

 and foremoft part of the fpring, fcarcely 

 being fufficient to lubricate the parts alluded 

 to, either for the convenient purpofes of na- 

 ture, or of man. Too many inftances of 

 this unhealthful fort are to be found among 

 Oaks growing in weak foils, or even in 

 good, v/hen fprung from the old fathers 

 heads before fpoken of, yet may have ar- 

 rived to the content from five, to ten feet, 

 or more, and confequently whofe firft up- 

 per tier of boughs are fomething above the 

 fizes of what I have recommended to be 

 debarked ; even before they arrive at their 

 fatal ftanda 



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