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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees, Chap. Hf, men for their pains only, when they perceiv’d the great advantage, repented of their Bargaiz, and undertaking it themfe lyes were gainers above half: I with onlyfor the expedi tion of this knotty work, fome effectual Engine were deviled 5 fuch asT have been tolda worthy Perfon of this Nation made ule of, by which he was able with oxe man to perform wore than with twelve Oxen 5 and furely, there might be much done by faltning of Iron hooks and faygs about one Root to extract another; the koock chayn'd to fomeportable Screw or Winch: | fay fuch an invention mighte f: fect wonders not only for the extirpation of Roots, but the proftrating of huge Trees: That {mall Engine, which by {ome is cal’d the German-devil, reform’d, after this manner, and duely applied mightbe very expedientforthis purpofe, and theref exhibited the following figure and fubmit it to impro ore we have vement. Chap. II. A Difcourfe. of Fovet-Treés. 3 A the hand that keeps the Rope,b clofe upon the Cylinder c which is moved bya Pinnionof three or four teeth : d which moves a larger Iron Wheel f. ¢ the Handle put pox the Spindle of the Pinnion, to turneit withal, The wkole Frame is let into a bigger piece of Wood, viz. h being about four foot in length, and one ix breadth, and the.other end ofthe Roller or Cylinder, #s fuftein'dby a leffer block of Wood (i) g the Plate which holds the Wheel and Pinnion iz the larger block. Note, That the Cylinder may be made ofgoodtough Iron, abont four inches in diameter, and fourteen or [ixteen inches in length, and the tooth'd Wheel f ofthe like fluff, and of «a thickneffe proportionable. But this is to be prastisd only where you defign a final extirpation ; for fome have drawn fackers even fromanold fi#b root; but they certainly perifh by the 4of which invades them, and are very fubject to grow rotten. Pliny {peaks of one Root which took up an intire Acre of Ground,and Theophraflus defcribes the Lycean Platanus to have fpread an hundred foot; iffo, the Argument may hold good for their growth after the Tree is come to its period.They made UIE) Cups of the Roots of Oak heretofore, and fucha curiofity Atheneus tells us was carv’d by Thericlens himnfelf; and there is a way foto tinge Oakafter long burying and foaking in Water, which givesit a wondertull politure,as that it has frequently been taken fora courfe Ebony. 15. There is not in ature a thing more obnoxious to deceit; then the buying of Trees fianding, upcn the reputation oftheir Appearance to the eye, unletie the Chapvan be extraordinarily judicious; fo various are their bidden, and conceal'd Infirmities, till they be fed’d, and fawz out: foasif to any thing applicable, certainly there is nothing which does more perfectly confirm ic then the molt flourifhing out-fide of Trees, Fonti nulla fides. A Timbertree isa Aferchant Adventurer, you fhall never know what heis morth, till he be dead 16. Oaks are iniome places (where the foil is (pecially qualified) ready to be cut for Cops in fourteen years and fooner ; I compute fromthe firlt femination 5 thoughit be told as aninftance of high encouragement (and as indeedit merits) that a Lady in Northamptonfhirelowed corns , and liv’d to cut the Trees produc’d from them, twice in two and twenty years 5 and both as well grownas moftarein fxteew oreighteen. Thisyet iscertain, that Acorns fet in Hedg-rows have in thirty years born a flew of a foot diametre: Generally, Copps- wood fhould be cut clofé, and at fuch Intervals as the growth requires; which being feldomconftant, depends much onthe places, and the Aivds, the movldandthe air,and for which there are extant particular Statutes to dire& us, of all which more at largehereafter. Oak for Tan-bark may be fel!’d from April to the latt of Fume, by a Statute inthe 1 ‘Jacobi, 2 . i7..lo |