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fpecifick productions, what would in the natural 

 flate of the land have been impofiible, by an adap- 

 tion of fit circumftances, a production may be ex- 

 cited, foreign and uncongenial to the foil ; while, 

 without thefe circumftances, no more fuccefs would 

 have followed than to him who fows without cul- 

 ture, or plants without trenching the ground. 



Thefe reflections arofe from a frequent and late 

 obfervation, made on the extenfive and thriving 

 plantations of the abovementioned gentleman ; who 

 has, without hyperbole, changed the barren heath 

 to a fruitful field, the dreary wafte to a delightful 

 foreft, by an adaption of circumftances to fituation 

 and foil; and, by an application of what would 

 chcrifh and defend, has extended a plantation of 

 beech-trees uncommon to this diftrict; nor I be- 

 lieve do they fpontaneoufly grow in any county 

 through the eaftern divifion of the kingdom. 



The mode Sir William purfued, was the plant- 

 ing of the beech-trees from the nurfery, while fmall, 

 amongft Scotch firs. Many heaths befide his have 

 been broken up and planted with firs, to much pub- 

 lick and private benefit. But I have not obferved, 

 unlefs recently, the regular intermixture of the 

 beech at due diftance. Thefe trees, in a foil per- 

 haps without clay or loam, with the heathy fod, 



trenched 



