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flioots from fuch roofs^ when their hfead is cut 

 oft by hook^ handbill^ &c. — ^Further as a root 

 in the earth joftles and removes by it's fu- 

 perior ftrength of extenfion, any adjoining 

 ftrata's of earth, to make way for it's habi- 

 tation and fubfiftence ; So alfo do the other 

 roofs in their terra in the body of the tree, 

 crowd — crofs — and contravene the inward 

 perpendicular fap tubes and horizontal in- 

 terlaces, and all other ceffible parts of bo- 

 dily wood, for their habitation and fubfift- 

 ence— 



Having given the true charafteriftic, or 

 proper name of fuch knots — declared the 

 means of their prefervation when their na- 

 tural offspring is deftroyed— fliewn their 

 limilar powers with roots growing in the 

 earth — And their parts diitind: from the 

 body of any Oak, great, or fmall — I am 

 coming now to ufe very ftrong felicitations 

 to gain credit, that fuch roofs themfelves in 

 their new ftate (I muft call it) alluded to, 

 do not thereon naturally perifh, if protedted 

 from the injuries of the outward elements 

 by means of the balfam fpoken of ; like to 

 what befalls all roots^ or knots fo expofed, 

 whofe quondam boughs have been deftroyed 



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