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times in the working up of old timbers, are 

 emirely owing to the neglect of the ori- 

 ginal owners, from their not timely ap- 

 plying fuch kind of remedies againft the 

 fame, as have been prefcribed. Infomuch 

 as all the injury that with any fliadow of 

 reafon can be alledged to proceed from the 

 roots of the higheft fizes of boughs, I have 

 recommended to be deftroyed 3 is no more, 

 than that the clear riving quality of fich 

 trees, for the ufe of the cooper, clapboard 

 maker, lath and pale render, may in time 

 to come be fomething injured, even to the 

 content of the diameter of fuch roots : The 

 which cannot be any thing confiderable, as 

 it is well knov/n, that the cleareft bodied 

 Oaks that have otherwife fo naturally grown, 

 had once fome boughs near, if not full as 

 big, that cafually periilied in their youthful 

 growing ftate, in their lides either by their 

 having been obumbrated and ftifled for want 

 of air, by the higher domineering boughs 

 of the fame— Or perchance by lateral ad- 

 joining boughs of other trees — Or by being 

 within the reach of cattle, have by their 

 browings undergone a lingering death- — And 

 yet after fuch fatal confequences, no ap- 

 pai'ent injuries of that kind have been com- 

 K 2 plained 



