i6z The S\(dmral Hijiory 
117. Which deception of fight moft certainly arifes from a 
tovp in the middle, which feems only an ornament^ and the inca- 
pacity of the Beholder of feeing both parts of the Walk, at one 
time ; which that it may be the better apprehended, fee the man- 
ner of it. Tab. 13. Fig. 3. where the /e/rer (lie ws the from 
the ^^r(^e« tending toward that in the Fifi-pond^ b the place of 
the beholder^ c the femicirch or bow oppofite to him^ d e the two 
ends of the walki Now the beholder being placed in ^, and ha-, 
ving the bow before him^ is not commonly fo wary as to find,thac 
if the lines i were continued, they would decujjate and not 
fall into firaight lines, nor that the walks themfelves would do the 
fame, becaufe he fees but one ftraight part of the walk, b d 2X 
one time, and the other bezt another time, which when feen to-' 
gether at either end, plainly meet in an angle^ and by reafon of 
the fide hedges terminate the fight at little more than half way, 
at kL 
I J 8. Hither alfo belong the methods whereby they order their 
Woods in this Countjij which if Vnder-woodsmov near the Forreft 
, of Whichwood, they commonly fell not till twenty years growth ; but 
in the Chafe near by it, fomtimes at feven or eight : dividing them 
into Acres and Braids (or bredths) every Acre containing forty 
braids^ ^ braidbcing one pole long and four broad ; into which 
they thus divide their Woods for the better fale of them to the 
meaner fort of people, fome buying ten, others twenty, and fome 
thirty Z'r^^i^/y or more. 
119. In the C hilt em Country they fell their Under- wood Co - 
pices commonly at eight or nine years growth, but their tall wood^ 
or Copices of w^hich they make tall Jhids^ billet^ istc at no certain 
time; nor fell they thefe Woods all together,but draw them as they 
call it, almoft t\ try year fome, according as their wood comes to 
be of a fit fcantling for tall Jhid or billet^ cutting every fiid of 
tall wood four foot long befide the kerf^ and the billet three foot 
four inches, according to the Statutes of the 7 oiEdw. 6» 7. and 
the 43 of d^Eliz^, 14. which ought dfo according to the fame 
Statutes^ whether round bodjed^ half round, or quarter cleft y to he 
of a certain number of inches about, according as named or mark- 
ed of fo many Caft^ as may be feen particularly in the Statutes at 
large. Which is all concerning Arts relating to Plants^ except 
it (liall be thought worthy notice, that they ufe rofes in this Coun- 
