After fevenl cuts made with a (ha/p Knife, I found 
the Bark of the Wood to be exceeding hard ^ and this vvas 
nioftly occafion'd, as I imagined to my (elf, by a Coagu^ 
lated Whitifh Matter, which one would take to be Ronn \ 
the hardnefs ot which hindred me from cutting the Wood 
and the Bark fo eafily together, as not to hurt the Hori^ 
zontal Veflels which were continued from the Wood into 
the Bark in a Right Line 5 for the Bark being much harder 
than the Wood, always yielded to my Knife. 
Wherefore I cut off as well as I could a fmall piece of 
Wood and Bark^at one cut, and placed the (aid piece be- 
fore a Microfeope, that the Painter might view the Wood 
and Bark together. ' . 
In the faid Fig. 3. by QllTSR is reprefented a Par- 
ticle of the abovenientioned Bark, in which the Horizon- 
tal Vefiels, as they lye in the Wood, and are continued on 
to the Bark, and from whcnox: the Bark is prddjuced, are 
(hown by N MO P, of which N and O do not go quite 
throughout into the Bark, by reafon of that hard Matter 
which we mentioned before, and which you mav fee 
in X. ' / 
But the Horizontal Veffels, that are dcfcribed by Ts^ R S, 
and PQ.11T, go throughout the Wood into the Biirk, fo 
far as to preferve the Bark from any Mortification.: 
Now as the Bark of the Beach Tree, or rather its Veffels 
or Canals, run circularly about the Wood, I could not at 
firft conceive how thofe Gan.als could be product :p;Tt of 
the Horizontal Vefiels 5 but at laft I diftovefd' th'ars^ the 
Horizontal Veffels are continued from the \^co4 ijit6::the 
Bark, fo th re fpouted out from every, fide of ^xcjffe Vl^fels 
exceeding fmall Canals, which run circulatlfabbbt'the 
Wood, and fo for the moft" part prodi2jced thi Bdrk of 
that VV'ood. * . . ' -inth; 
In the faid Fig, 3. I have reprefented by PClllT one 
of thofe Horizontal Veflels, as they arc continued from 
the Wood, and carried on into part of the Bark, 'which 
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