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tlie bark to the wood on the too flat fides | 

 which may attain a relaxation and the Hke 

 confequences therefrom by the fame means. 

 Neither of which events however have come 

 within my own experience. 



But I am able to urge in fuppdrt of 

 fuch opinion the event of an experiment^ 

 I made of late years^ on fome young trees 

 not bigger than my wrift, which was the 

 /lifting their bark about four foot high from 

 the ground fix times in the whole round, 

 and renewing the fame in the interftices, al- 

 ternate years, whereupon the bodies in fuch 

 parts fwell'd out extraordinary to any other 

 of the fame. But either cafe is to be attend- 

 ed to before it is gone too far. 



Again, in the latter two cafes, the ple- 

 nary efFefts are not likely to be attained, as 

 nature therein muft be waited on, from one 

 fingle performance 5 and therefote the fame 

 are not vifibly to be expedled till the force 

 of two, or three operations are over, in- 

 termitting at leaft a year between each. But 

 thefe things I mention rather as matters of 

 Difquifitions to the Curious. 



