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degrees, the hearty ; as the alternate changes 

 of wet and dry, will gradually waft and 

 confumc any fubftance lefs hard than a 

 ftone. And by fuch time as thefe aqu(zdu6is^ 

 or prominences ate themfelves perifhed and 

 rotted off Nature then, and not before, 

 and perhaps never with fufficient power, 

 fets about a final clofure of the wound. And 

 the lofs cannot be computed till the tree 

 is converted — ^Nor is the damage then to he 

 computed barely from how much of the 

 tree is thereby periflied — But the fale of 

 the whole is loft for the moft valuable pur^ 

 pofes. 



As the truth of thefe obfervations is ob- 

 vious to all but blind men, but not animad- 

 verted on by any fylvatick writer, that I 

 know of ; at leaft no means propofed of 

 remedying the mifchiefs arifing therefrom ; 

 I think very little perfuafion requifite, as the 

 remedy withal is fo eafy, to induce the pro- 

 prietors of old timbers to prevent the ruin 

 of many a fine Oak, in fuffering fuch 

 breaches to lie open and expofed. As there 

 are no greater managers than many men of 

 fortune, in all other parts of Geoponics, 



Nor 



