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neither may be doubted, let it be conlidefed 

 how it can be otherwife : For as there is 

 fome contradlion in the inner veffels of fuch 

 young Oaksj occafioned by the ftiort al- 

 lowance their bodies have been fo long kept 

 at. Upon fo great a change 5 Such is the 

 unaccuftomed influence of the fun upon 

 their naked fides-— Such the unufaal rare- 

 fadion of the fap thereupon- — Such the ac- 

 tivity then of the roots to encreafe the ftore 

 of it — So fmall and llender their heads, and 

 thereby the more incapable to receive an 

 uncommon influx into thein — Such again 

 the inofculations of the inward horizontal 

 velTels with thofe that run ftrait up — And 

 fuch is the acutenefs and polarity of the 

 particles of which the fap is compofed — 

 That the arbufcula will thereupon at laft 

 break out in their fides-— 



I DECLINE ranging the whole aggregate, 

 in the rear of this polTe of objeftions ^ as 

 I think one half of them, if remembered, 

 are fufficient to invalidate any reafons brought 

 againft them. 



Whatever part of the foregoing ar- 

 guments have previoufly been fufHciently 



4 inculcated 



