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fmall to the Painter, that if he had not drawn 'em bigger 
than they were, you could not have made any Judgment 
of them. 
Thefe Horizontal Veffels don't run through the thick* 
^ nefi of the old Bark, for in fome places the Bark dies 
fooner than in others for want of NouTiPnment, infomuch 
that you may perceive in the Bark of a Lime-Tree of an 
ordinary thickriefs^ three diftindt Crufts lying one upon 
another y the outermofl: of which being deftitute of Nou- 
rifhment, by little arid little become dry and wither d. 
I (hall never fulTer my felf to be perfwaded that the 
great number of defcending Veflels v^htch are difcovercd 
in the Bark of a Lime Tree can proceed from the Eloot of 
the faid Tree, but depend on the horizontal Veflels of 
the fame, which by reafon of their exceeding fraallnefs are 
hardly vifible in Fig lo. For if the Nourifhment of the 
Bark does pj^oceed out of the R.oot, the Bark would 
never perifh unlefs the Tree did alfo, whereas we fee that 
in fome Trees the greateft part of the Barkis dead or wi- 
ther'd, 
I took a fmall flice of the faid Bark and cut it acrofsj 
and placed it before a larger Microfcope, and caufed the 
Painter to draw it as well as he could, who affirmed to 
me 'twas impoffible for him to defcribe dl the fmall Holes 
or Orifices which he faw. 
Fig. II. N OPQlR. S reprefents a verv fmall Par- 
ticle of the Bark c^f a Lime-Tree, wherein are (hown partly 
the mouths of the Canals that lye lengthways in the Bark, 
and are here cut acrofi, but chiefly to give you a view of 
the horizontal Canals, as they are cut in their length, as 
at N S or P CL, the which horizontal Veifels are repre- 
fented in Fig. ic by A I H, B M L G, B M K F and 
C D E. 
Thefe Canals, or VeiTels, defcribed by N S or PCL;ire 
not of a continued Hollownefs throughout, but racher 
feem to confift of Oval Particles linkt to one anocner. 
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