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A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature
A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature Author:Richard Bradley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: firft Weight 6451100; fb that one Year with another, for the Term of an hundred Years, it gain'd 64712 Parts, which is 5376 Ounces; for it would be ridiculous to... more » imagine, as fbme have done, that an Acorn that had mot vigoroufly the firft Year, fb as to be perhaps fix or eight Inches high, mould weigh as much as a Year's Growth when the Tree is fifty Years old; or that every Year, during the whole time of its Growth, it gains equal Sums of Weight: no; the Cafe is quite otherwife, as we find by Experience: the firft Year the young Oak weighs about three times as much asthecor and the fccond Year about three times as much as the Tree of one Year, and the third Year three times as much as the fecond, and fb on in that Mathematical Progreffion, during the chiefeft Time of its Growth; not to reckon the Weight or Number of the Acorns, which it might realbnably bear, from about its thirtieth Year to the hundredth Year of its Age, which I conceive cannot be lefs than a hundred Bufhels, which may probably contain in Number 384000 Acorns; (for reckoning fixty Glands to the Pint, which is 3840 to the Bufhel, in a hundred Bufhels there will be the aforefaid Number ;) and if we fuppofe them to weigh after the rate of twelve to the Ounce, the whole amount of Weight will be 3100 Ounces, or 1000 Pound: But I have been as moderate in this. Computation of the Acorns, as I have been before in the Weight of the whole Body of the Tree, with its Roots and Branches, which I have only reckon'd fifteen Ton. I once remember four Sacks of Acorns were gather'd from one Tree which amounted to fixteen,Bufhels; and I believe then one may reckon five Bufhels to be the Produce of a good Tree, one Year with another, which, for the Space of a hundred Years, amount to five hundred Bufhels, weighing (according to the ...« less