This spirit might easily be confounded with the sun, whose power was supposed to be stored up in the warmthgiving tree.
Of course the vital heat is not to be confounded with fire; but so much for analogy.
The filth of the stable is confounded with the whiteness of fresh snow.
Power is also given to appoint joint-committees with other county councils in matters in which the two councils are jointly interested, but a joint-committee so appointed must not be confounded with the standing joint-committee of the county council and the quarter sessions, which is a distinct statutory body and is elsewhere referred to.
The diseased roots have been confounded with those attacked by Phylloxera.
