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Fi ^ I S T V rcprr . a little piece of Cork, as it 
spr-jrcvi rnrc^a Micro .hat was more tpagnif^^ing than 
the iurmer so i] piece of Cork was cut off from 
F^g i ^, benvecn t G, and was that part that was 
ncK. or that was ^ d to the Tree, and from whence 
it rec'^i y I ?c{ « and confequently then were thofe 
Canals vvkicb it' Fig. 14* were cist long ways, but now a- 
crofs; 
In the (aid J 15, you may perceive that almoft" all 
thofe parrs that were cut acrofs did not eonfift of round 
■Canals, but ot: hexangular ones, which is agreeable to the . 
r^oft perfeft order,, bcraofe it prevents all the vacuities 
between tfcem 5 and I imagin torny felf, that in cafe one 
could procure a piece of Cork, before it had been made 
ftrait and fiat, after the abovementioned manner . we 
fhould fee the Canals fo cut acrofs, as inFig» 15, between 
R S T li, much moreperfedly than we now do. Where* 
as by the bending it to make it ftrait, a great many 
Canals are difpiaced and difordered 5 as in the cutting of 
it with a Soife the exceeding fine Membranes, of which 
the Canals are composed, are often torn and broke to 
pieces. 
This is what I have thought fit to trouble you with 
about Cork, but if 1 v/ere Mafter of that Wood which 
products it, I fhould receive greater fatisfaftidn 5 where«- 
as I cannot now conceive how the vaft number of Hori* 
zontal Veffels which are feen in the Cork, and of which 
the whole Cork confifts-, can be produced by the Wood 
thereof. 
Ill <PaH 
