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leafl: Sign of Impofture, the deep Situation of the 
Figures hindering them from having any SuCpicion 
on that head. 
On the contrary, Luke Schrceckius, on figured 
Beech- wood, Eph. N. C Dec. 3- An. 7, 8 . Obf. 1 1 8. 
follows Reifelius's Opinion} and being vers'd in 
' Malpighis Anatomy of Plants, writes : “ No wonder, 
if Figures cut in a young Tree, by the Length of 
“ Time, and the Accretion of many Barks, appear at 
“ Jaft about its Middle, when grown old. " 
fohn Chrijlopher Gottwald, on a crucified Man 
drawn by Nature in the Middle of a Beech-trunk 
Eph. N. C. Dec. 3. An. 9. Obf. 158. accufing Na- 
ture’s hmple Violence, or a Difeafe of the Tree, is 
correded by the moft celebrated John James Scheuch- 
zer^ in his Itinera Alpina, Tom. 3* pag. 4^4. and 
in his Herbarium Diluvianum-, ^.46. of a little Man 
f«Beech-wood, lab.iL, where he makes mention of 
other Inftances. 
John Melch. Verdries is of the iame Sentiment, 
treating of a Figure found in the Middle of a Beech, 
Eph. N.C. Cent. 3^4. Obf. 89. 
There remains, to my Knowledge, the Figure of a 
Chalice with a Sword perpendicularly ereB, and on 
its Foint fuft dining a Crown, found in the Heart of 
a Piece of Wood at the Hague i which the Authors 
of the Colledliohs of Breflaw exhibit to us “ as a 
“ fingular Fhtenomemn, worthy of being compared 
“ to Aldrovanduss Guaiacum-tree, and figured 
“ Stones, if no Optic Fallacy, Error of Judgment, 
* This Wood is kept in the Library of the Council of Dantzick. 
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