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However that be, by this time, the ftanding 

 plants, with the before, and polTibiy fome 

 yet remaining to be extirpated, have ex- 

 haufted much of the fpirit of the ground, 

 which the plants defigned at laft, to blefs 

 and make happy, coming ages, Vv'^ere entitled 

 to, and fliould much earlier have had, the 

 foie propriety of. Whereby they have like- 

 wife invifibly undergone (But what the pro- 

 prietors eyes do not fee, their hearts do not 

 grieve) great fufferance in their roots, from 

 being reftrained, by the oppofition of their 

 rivals below, from a more mafterly exerting 

 themfelves in the earth ; if not put to an 

 entire ftop ; and thereby obliged to turn in- 

 to a mat of fmall fibres — For where the bo- 

 dies ftand fo thick above, it muft be con- 

 ceived, there muft be contention in the roots 

 l?elow : And where-ever there is fuch op- 

 pofition, they will meet with a ftop to their 

 progreffive motion : A vital ftop, and of all 

 kinds, if rightly confidered^ the worft ! For, 

 what the ftom.ach is to an animal, the roots 

 are to a plant 3 nor do their organical parts 

 underground only fofFer ; but their bodies 

 tcoj by being fo thick above : For the fame 

 are in the rnean while thereby prevented of 

 the nourilhi^g fucculence^ they would other- 



