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cheriilied by an uninterrupted enjoyment of 

 fun and air — of rain and fertile dews — even 

 a free combination of every element— How 

 come the bodies of fuch about London that 

 are clofe box'd upj to proted: them from 

 idle paflengers, not to grow in any propor- 

 tion of bignefs ? in the fame time, to thofe 

 that are not — Another notorious advantage- 

 ous influence of the fun in particular, on 

 the manner of expediting the growth of the 

 Oak, is fuch that it is juftly matter of fur* 

 prife, the notoriety thereof fliould not have 

 had before this time, proper influence on 

 the minds of fuch proprietors : As it is dif- 

 coverable in every carpenter's yard, that in 

 the infide of the body of an Oak, if any 

 thing large, when crofs cut near the Butt- 

 end^ the circles which denote every year's 

 growth, are found to be rather longer from 

 the pith on the eaji and weft fides ^ than on 

 the north • but much longer ftill on the 

 Joiith fide ; and this only as having had mcfl: 

 benefit of the fun : Infomuch as the lame 

 pith which, if not quite, was very near, the 

 center of the Oakling when not bigger than 

 a man's thumb, becomes not the true center 

 of it when grov/n old, by two or three inches, 

 fometimes much more^ as I have often prov'd. 



