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Show 174 A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap. XXX, 34. If you are to remove yourTimber, let the Dewbe firft of, and the South-wind blowbefore youdraw it: neither fhould you by any means put it toufe for three, or four months after, unlefg great neceflity urge you, asit did Dwiliys , Whointhe Punic War built his Fleet of Timber betoreit was feafon'd, being not above two months fromthe veryFelling to the Launching : and as were alfo thofe Navies of Hiero after forty days; andthat of Scipio the third Carthaginean War , from the veryForeft to the Sea. , in July is a goudtimefor bringing home your fell’d Timber: But concerning the Time and Seafon of Felling,a jult Ireatife might be written: Let the Learnedtherefore consult Vitruvins particular lyo n thisfibe JeG.1.2.0,.19.AMo M4,Cato c.17. Plind.16.c.2 \.Conf tantinus and Heron, 13. de RR, Veget. 1. 4.¢.35. Columella 1. . c.2. but efpecially the moftample Theophraflus guriv iseclas. 1. 5. Note > that a Tex ct Tim- beris forty folid Feet, a Load fifty. 35. To make excellent Boards and Planks , *tis the advice of fome, youfhould Bark yourTrees in a fit feafon , and fo let them tand wakeda full year before the felling; and in fome cafes , and grounds, it maybe profitable : Burlet thefe, with what has been ilreadyfaid inthe foregoing Chapters of the feveral kinds, fuflice for this Article: 1 fhalladd one Adver tifement ofCaution to thole Noble perfons, and others who have Groves and Trees of ornament neer their houfes, and in their Gardens in London, and the Circle ofit; efpecially , if they be ofgreat fiatur e, and well grown 5 fuch as are the Groves in the feveral Inns of Court 3 May, even that (comparatively , newJ lantation) in my Lord ofBedJords Garden, &c, and vy hereve r they ftand in the more interi our parts of the City 5 that they be not over hafty » or by any means perfwadedto cut down anyof their old Trees . upon hope of new more flourifhing Plamtationss thir kning , or repairing deformjties; becaufe they grewfo well when firft they werefet: It is to be confider’d how excee dingly that pernicious foak of the Seacoal isincreas'd iz, and about Lowde n fince they were firtt planted, and thebuildings environing them, and inclofing it in amone ft them, which does fo univerlally contaminate the Air, that what Plantations of Trees thall be now begun inany of thofe places, will have much ado, great difficulty , and require a long time, to be brought to any tolerable pertec tion : ThereforeJer them make much of what they have: and though I difcourage none yetI can animate none tocut downthe old. * i : 36. And here might now come in a pretty fpeculation, what fhould be the r eajon alter gene Woods of one fpecies , the nextral] Fellinys and f ctirpations of vatt = 1] a 9 } i e Yor , { quite a diferent fort?s We (ee dens and Corne fields [pontancous {ucceflion fhould be of indeed {i mething of this in our GarCas the beft of Pocts witn, fies) but that may be much imputed to the alteration, by improveme nt. or detriment of the Soyle and other Acc ig mts: whatever : the Can/eé may be,fince 1€ appears not in any univ erfal de, ay of Nature ({i fheiently exploded) I thal l onely here produce matter of Fad, and that it ordinarily Chap. XXX, A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees, rily happens: As in fome goodly Woods formerlybe longing to my Grandfather that werea ll of Oak after felling, they univerfall y {prung up Beech 5 and ‘tis affirm'd bygeneral ter Beech , Birch fucceeds ; as in that famou Experience, that afs Wood at Darzway on the River Tindarne inthe Province of Moray in Scotland, where nothing had grown but Oak in a Wood three miles pily more Southerly, it might have been Becch in length , and hap9 and not Birch ‘till the third degradation. Birches familiarly growout of old and decay d Oaks; but whence this Sympa thy and affection fhould proceed, is more difficult to refolve, in as much as we do not dete any{o prolifical , and eminent Seed in that Tree. Some Accidents of this natur e may be imputed to the Winds » and frequently have been known to wafte and conve the Birds who to places widely d¥fant, as we have touch’din the Chapter yofSeeds Firs 8c, See, 4+ Holly has been feento grow out of 4h, as Afhout of(everall Trees, efpecially Hei-Thorn ; nay, inanold rotte n Af-fiump in a place where no. Afhes at all grew by manywiles in the ty: And Ihave had it confidentlyaflerted by Perfow whole Conns of undoubted truth, that they have feen a Tree cut inthe middl e, Afh-wood , and the exteriour part Oak, and this whofe heart was in NorthamptonShire: And why not as well (though with fomet hing moredifficulty? ) as througha Willow, whofe Body it has been obfervedto penetrate even to the Earth 2 obtruding the Willo w quite out ofits place, of whicha pretty Emblem might be conce iv’d: ButI purfue thefe Inftances no farther, concluding this Chapt er with the Norway Engine, or Saw-Mill, to be either moved with the force of Water,or Wind, &c, for the more expedite cuting and converting of Timber, to which we will add another » for the morefacile perforation and boring of Elms, or other Timber to make Pipes and Aqueduéls, and the excavating of Columns to preferve their Shaft s trom /plitting, to which otherwife they are obnoxious, The Frames of both thefe Inftruments difcover themfelves fufliciently to the eye, and therefore will need the lefs defcription 5 Thereis yet this reformation from thofe which they ufe both in Norway and Switzerland 5 That whereas they make the Timber approach the Sawes,bycertain indented Wheels with a Rochet (which is frequently out of order) there isin the firft Figur e of two Counterpoifes of about three hundred pound a fubftitution weight, each, as you may fee at A.A. faftning the Cords to which they append, at the extreams of two movable pieces of Timber » Whichf lide on two other pieces of fixed Wood, by the ayd of certain {mall Pallys,which you mayimagine to be within an Hinge in the Houfe or Mill, by which means the Weights continually draw, and advance the moving pieces of Wood, and confequently the Timbe r to be/lit *ewixt the faid Pieces , towards the Teeth ofthe Saws, , faftned rifing, falling as the motion of the Wheele directs; And on this Frame and you mayput four orfive Saws, or more if youpleafe, and place them at what intervals you think fit , according to the dimenfions which you defigne in cutting the Timber for your #/e; and whenthe piece A a2 1S |