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the barke having 4iot been divided from the body, upon 
coming together again each turn andtwift of the grain 
fitting its place prove frefh and vigoroufly growing, 
which may fati^fie the dth and 7th Queries, but that ever 
fuch Trees will prove whole and found doth fcarcely 
conlift with reafon or our prefent thoughts. And this 
Calamity hath not been found in only Tr^^/ that were 
frefli andftanding, butalfo in Trees cut down, as is af- 
firmed by lAt.ShiJh the Majter-builder in his Majefties 
Ship-yard at Detford, and from divers others, but not- 
withftandmg it is thought to be only among fuch difeaf- 
ed Trees as are before mentioned. 
But it is yet to be queftioned whether Fines have 
proved cleft and crackt along the bodies by the fame 
way and reafon ^sTimber-trees, which decay is efpeci- 
ally to be feen on JValls expofed to thtSouthern afped, fo 
that the Sm our accuftomed Friend, now proved our 
great enemy, by thawing and relaxing the Sap every day, 
and then being^<?;^^^2 and madeftitf again every night, 
which often repetition of bending and unbending^ Joften^ 
and hardening tho. vivid fpirituous Juice being de- 
ftroied, and Day and Night the drought vigoroufly act- 
ing, ( the Sap being this Year difordered and furprized, 
not gradually leafoned , even before Michaelmas day, 
and the frefli Sap tofupply its defers being wholly de- 
teined from arifing , there then being none or very lit- 
tle exhalations or evaporations arifing out of the frozen 
and bound Earth ) thefe poor flender bodies fill'd only 
with thin and notvxicons Sap, have proved as great fuf- 
ferers as if by amputation they had been deprived of 
their natural fufl:enance; for if they could have none 
from the Earth, and their own true jW^^ mortified, and 
it be certain that omne ficcum appetit humidum , it will 
follow that fuch branches will by the conftancy and con- 
tinuance of fueh feverity ( the Day being as bad as the 
Night ) prove as dry as iticks cut off long before : where- 
as 
