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iefan^ as flie Is with like affedled airs there t 

 Lafcivious urban Routes ! and happily un- 

 known to country fwains. There were in- 

 deed different intentions, and ufes made of 

 fuch (hady Lt^ciy in the times of the anti- 

 ent Druids^ as thereunder, by the Hght 

 either of lamps, torches, or candles they 

 performed fome forts of facrifices to their 

 appropriate fabled gods : From which lights, 

 as moft etymologifts imagine, thofe gloomy 

 and opaque thickets, obtained the name of 

 Luci. 



But the political ule of the Oak that 

 I am upon, is, the growth of compleat- 

 timber 3 which in my proceeding confines 

 me to fay ; that, the cafe darkens yet upon 

 the wifhfiil views of the beforementioned 

 Oak proprietors — -That, by the very reafoh 

 of the means and manner of the former ref- 

 traint they have laid on their young plants, 

 they will at laft produce vimenious lateral 

 germens 5 when their final necelTary diftances 

 from each other are allotted them — That, 

 the like ftands not only on my own ob- 

 fervations ; but that, I am enabled to join 

 ' thereto, that of the correct Dr. Hales in his 

 Vegetable Staticks^'But that the juftnefs of 



neither 



