Now as a new Ciicle of Fibres grows yearly on 
the Tree between the Wood and Bark, "tis not im- 
pofTible but a Number of thefe fhould in a Procefs of 
Years more and more furround the ingraved Cha- 
rafters, and at length cover them. And this Num- 
ber was the greater in our Beech, on account of 
better than half a Century elaps'd fince the Incifion, 
which was made in the Year 1672. as appears on the 
Outfide of the Bark, as may be feen in the figure. 
But while new Circles of Fibres are fuccelTivdy 
added, the Ttmtcle or Skin of the Bark is broken 
each Time, and the Utriculi extended and dilated. 
Wherefore ’tis eafy, from what has been faid, to 
draw the Reafon, why the Bits of Bark cut off on all 
Sides, in the Letters DB, had the fame Fate with the 
Letters ; why the Wood between the Bark and Letters 
was folid and found j and why the Shapes of the 
Letters bore a juft Proportion in the Middle of the 
Wood, and not in j^he Bark. 
So much for our Beech. 
Now let us fee, in few Words, what Authors fay 
of fuch figured Woods. 
Solomon Reifelius, of Letters found within the 
. *very cleft Trunk of ^ Beech, Eph. Nat. Cur. Dec, 
I. An. 6. Obf. 4. has at length, though with fomc 
Difficulty, guefs'd the genuine Caufe from frequent 
Examples of Incifions. 
But Joannes Meyerus, ^on a Thief hanging from a 
Gibbet, drawn by Nature’s Fencil in a Beach, Eph. 
N. C. Dec. 3. An. 5. Obf. 29. and Joannes Betrus 
Albrechtus, on a certain rare Figure feen in a Beech, 
Eph. ibid, aferibe it to a Sport of Nature, and give 
this Reafon ; becaufe they could not difeover the 
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