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plained of therefrom, by the future render, 

 or cleaver. 



Nor is it at all difficult to account, why 

 any fuch fuppofed damage fhould be nearly 

 imperceptible, from fuch fmall and yet 

 living roots : For no fooner are the outer 

 parts of them covered by the barkring fpoken 

 of, and a new parenchyma compleatly form- 

 ed, whereby an abfolute clofure is made 

 to the once open parts : But nature proceeds 

 thereunder in her accuilomed manner, of 

 forming new eredl redlilineal fap tubes in 

 the annual circumferential rings of new wood 

 over fuch roots ; in like manner, on occafi- 

 on, cleavable as the cleareft parts of fuch 

 trees, and fo clofely united to the parts al- 

 luded to, as they become infeparable. And 

 this with the utmoft confidence I may af- 

 fert • fmce net being willing on either ac- 

 counts, to truft folely to the folid and fub- 

 ftantial reafons that firft led me to this prac- 

 tice ; where demonflration might be had 

 to confirm fo material an hypothefis j I made 

 no fcruple to cut open, as foon as they were 

 ready for the proof,, with a chifTel, feveral 

 young Oaks, which were of leaft account 

 IQ me^ in fuch parts where the once aper-r 



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