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inches or more according to the depth and Jirength of the 
froji, and upon the thaw the Earth finking to its former 
ftation leaves the unfixed Plants with their roots naked 
above ground, as it were fpewed out. And not fuch 
moift bodies only, but JMetals^as Brafs, Iron^ &G. have 
been fwelled in the time of being/ro^^^i, as hath been 
proved by Clocks^ Locks and other Injiruments^ and be- 
come laxed and plyant again upon the Thaw, Many 
more examples might be eafily produced to induce us 
to the thoughts that the fap is not right and genuine 
in fuch ill difpofed Trees, and that /i^^ might upon due 
examination be found in any fuch ^2^r/?e/^ bodies, as we 
are informed hath been found and obferved by fome, 
which may prove fomewhat in anfwer to the yth Que- 
rie : and if lce\ then preffure, and if prefFure, then break* 
ing and explofion. 
Itmav be doubted too, whether fome of thefe Trw 
thus liable to the fury of the Frofihave not hQci\Coltie> 
a term commonly ufed among Timber-Mer chants and 
by them avoided, which is towards the middle of the 
Tree, among the Annual Circles Some one is much larger 
then the reft and the Sap Fejfels there feem much ex- 
tended beyond their fellows, and upon cleaving or faw- 
ing fuch a Tree , that inclofed or inward heart, part 
thereof where that Circle is, will flip and drop from the 
other part oftentimes without any force to divide it, as 
an Inftrument outofaCafeor Mould made fit for it. 
Soaie fuppofe that thefe Wind-Jhahen or Lagd-trees 
ma7 be known or neerly gueffed at by the outfidewheu 
growing by the great l^bbs^ 2,3, or 4 in a Tree from the 
bottom to the branches , and that they have been af- 
fedted fomewhat confiderably with this difeafe beforCs 
and perhaps deft ( tha not in fo great a meafure a5 
now; and the fijjures clofed up again, aswe fee thefe 
to do quickly after the Froji, infomuch that ic is fcarce 
difcernable already, and in anfwer to the 9th Queries 
