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are to be taken off; on account of feme 

 vifta, or otherwife. Wherefore in order to 

 ^ falutary execution thereof, and to obviate 

 the belief in fome gentlemen, of an inevita-. 

 ble decay at the long run, in the part of the 

 body of the Oak next adjoining : I think 

 it needful to obferve, that no inference is to 

 be made from fuch, as have fuffered from 

 arms dying cafually, and have been fuffered 

 in a lingering manner to rot off : For in 

 that cafe it feldom fails of proving very inju- 

 rious to the body of the tree, by means of 

 their breaking off, in a rough and ragged 

 manner, and frequently thereby drawing out 

 fmall fpUnters from the body it's felf, and 

 leaving a few tough fpUnters flicking out of 

 the fame. Which (tho' I think I might 

 fpare faying it) are of courfe part of the 

 hearty remnant of the broken arm, or fuch 

 parts of the body as the broken arm could 

 not carry off with it : Which protuberances; 

 being left behind at the time of the frafture^ 

 not being foon corruptible, by their being 

 moftly of the moft enduring fubftance of 

 the body, do long remain thereon a fort of 

 aquaduBs^ by their pofture of inclination 

 to lead the rains in, to corrupt firft, the fap- 

 I jpy part of the tree adjoining, and then by 

 i " " degrees. 



