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■j as I remember defcribed the manner of the 

 original dilcipline. The like has formerly 

 been, but moft frequently unfuccefsfully at- 

 tempted in Engkfid ; from a wrong manner 

 of bending the heads of young Oaks to 



I' fomething that is liable^ in order to confine 

 them in that pofture. The confequences of 



I which have been, that after high winds 



I luch cords by chafeing thereon, have eat 

 thro' the bark into the very wood : And 

 where that has not happened ; as nature in 

 that kind of vegetation is prone to ere<5tnefs 5 

 new perpendicular mailer (hoots have pro- 

 ceeded out of the upper lides of the bend^ 

 ing partSj and that fo much the rather, as 

 the afcending fap in fuch bendiyig parts was 

 fomewhat reftrained in it's progrefs by the 

 conftriction of the ligature : Which (hoots 

 when cut off according to old cuftom by 

 hook^ handbill^ &c. have fent out near ad« 

 joining three or four, perhaps a dozen more 

 in the room of each ; Which has brought 

 that obfolete practice fo much the more into 



I difiife. 



Another like expedient of fome of 

 -our progenitors has been, to tie a cord with 

 a weight at the end of it, to fome part of 



their 



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