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would be more frequent dead a-top trees 

 than there are — • 



But if on the contrary the foil is very 

 good, and confequently the Oak very vi- 

 gorous i the effects thereon many times are, 

 that there v^ill oftentimes be as much con- 

 tent of coarfe timber in the head, as there is 

 good in the body, and therefore the leaft 

 profitable returns that can be made to the 

 owner ^ 'uiz, from a great burthen of fire- 

 wood in it's Briarean arms; unlefs fuch 

 arms are likewife timber, and then there is 

 great lofs to the owner, in the taking fo many 

 girts in meafuring — 



Whence, how Angular a notion it might 

 at firfl appear in m.e, I hope, I have plainly 

 fliewn the fmgularity of the Oak's manner 

 of growth in Britain ; What agents are in- 

 ftrumental to it — What are the feveral inju- 

 rious paflions of it — What refledlions led 

 me to a falutary reftitution thereof — What 

 are the natural events of fuch experiments — 

 As likewife the neceffity of the interpofition 

 of art — together with what the proper art, 

 is, — And laftly, that tho' the organs of the 

 Oak, have their primary formation from 

 1 nature : 



