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Nor is the manner of taking off the 

 large arms of timber trees, other than that 

 of taking off fmaller boughs. According- 

 ly in the firfl: place, I would advile the de- 

 barking fuch arm, or arms at the proper 

 feafon of the year, that is, when the bark 

 runs well ; if large, for eighteen inches in 

 length, or near upon, from the main body i 

 in which condition the fame fhould remain 

 for one year, and if two, the better j that 

 a pretty large ring of bark might in that time 

 be formed by nature contiguous to the body 

 of the tree. At the end I will call it of 

 two years, if there is no great haft, the 

 fame fhould be fawn off, avoiding a hajiy 

 fall, to prevent any fplinters being drawn out 

 of the body thereby : After which a chiliy 

 fhould follow the faw, not only to fmooth 

 the patent wood, but to hollow the edges 

 inward next the barkring ^ which will the 

 eafier thereby dilate it's felf and cover the 

 wound. But it being not proper to leave 

 the fame expofed to the weather, tho' in 

 a much better condition to fhift alone againfl 

 it, than the rough and ragged wounds be- 

 fore fpoken of ; it will be very needful to 

 cover the patent part with an emplajirum 



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