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very frequently to decline from her regular 

 courfe, and thereupon to accommodate her 

 felf to the mifrule of fjch accidents in £r/- 

 tain : It muft furely be allowed, that upon 

 every fuch involuntary perverfion, fome kind 

 and able Affiftant is v^anting, timely to re- 

 ftore her, to her prime deftinated motion. 

 And may it not plainly be perceived, as far 

 as an afped: of diflrefs can be faid to do 

 it, that without fuch an officious prolocu- 

 tor as I am, flie her felf invokes a reftora^ 

 tion ? 



I SHOULD not have thought it fo mate- 

 rial to dwell fo long upon the feveral caufes 

 of lateral germens laft mentioned 5 and their 

 and other reftridions to the corporal altitude 

 of the Oak, but to prove them all in an 

 equivocal fenfe, to be unnatural in Britain ^ 

 or otherwife, natural to Britain, 



To obviate one unreafonable objedtion 

 to the preceding minute dogmata of mine ; 

 I believe in human kind, it would hardly 

 be allowed a good argument againft educa- 

 tion ; that fome great genius's have arrived 

 at great knowledge without any. In like 

 manner as it has been fhewn, that many 



Oaks 



