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and dripping feafon forwards very much 

 this operation. 



This brings to my recolleftion, that 

 there are a fort of Oaks, which if not al- 

 ready grown too old, and confequently their 

 bark too ftubborn for the operation of the 

 AXy muft in al! reafon, highly recompence 

 the proprietor's trouble for the fame 5 whether 

 they have any ramufculi on their fides, or 

 no : Such being thofe that are pigtailed^ 

 as the timber buyers phrafe is j meaning, 

 too much improportion'd in their bodies a* 

 bove, to what the girt is below; whether 

 the fame has been occalioned by a greater 

 contraftion of the bark above, from drying 

 winds, or fun or any other caufe : But which 

 expedient, if the former arguments, in fa«- 

 vour of bark*llitting, be admitted, will con* 

 formably bring them, in time, to a more e- 

 qual proportion in their upper parts to the 

 lower ; if the latter are at the fame time o- 

 mitted. 



There are likewife Oaks which cafually 

 grow flat, meaning, not entirely circular 

 in their bodies j which I apprehend to hap- 

 pen from the greater ftifFnefs of cohaefion of 

 I the 



