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that the time and circumftances permitted ; and we conceive 

 that the beft and moil fatisfaclory mode of reporting to 

 your Lordihips the refult of that inveftigation will be, to 

 fpecify, as fhortly as may be, the fteps we took ; the obferva- 

 tions we made ; and our opinions, founded both upon what 

 we ourfelves faw, and upon fuch documents as appeared to us 

 authentic and convincing. 



After referring to the laft letter addreffed to us by the Com- 

 miffioners, in order that we might keep in view, as much as 

 pofTible, the objects more particularly recommended to our 

 attention, we proceeded nrfl to read a ftatement by Mr. For- 

 fyth of the properties of his Compofition, and then to infpec~t 

 and examine the various fpecimens and documents laid be- 

 fore us by him, tending to prove and illuftrate thofe proper- 

 ties. 



Our inveftigation, thus far, having proved as Satisfactory 

 as the nature of it admitted, we thought it right to 

 require Mr. Forfyth to fhew us fuch trees in Kenfmgton 

 Gardens as (having been injured or decayed by whatever 

 caufe) had been benefited by the application of this Compofi- 

 tion ; and we defired him to fhew us what fpecimens he could 

 of fuch trees in all the ftages of their amendment and re- 

 covery. In confequence of this requifition, we were con- 

 dueled to many foreft-trees of different kinds, (viz. Elms, 

 Limes, and Horfe-Chefnuts) in which holes and wounds, in 

 fome inflances feveral feet in length, and of a confiderable 

 width and depth, had been completely filled up with found 

 wood, fo as the outline of the wound remained barely difcer- 

 nible in the bark. We examined many others in an evident 

 ftate of progrefs towards a fimilar cure, and we could not dis- 

 cover any one of the experiments that fell under our obferva- 



tion, 



