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According to the (rate of Europe, and the infular fitua- 

 tion of this country, much of its fafety and importance 

 have been politically determined to arife from a plentiful 

 growth of oak timber, ht for building fhips of defence, and 

 for merchandife. Nor is the cultivation of a tree fo con- 

 genial to our foil, and fo ornamental to our forefts and 

 fields, an object unconnected with domeftick ufes, in the 

 conthuction of various kinds of machinery, and the moil 

 firm and comfortable habitations. 



We agree with Mr. Pavier, that the cultivation of 

 Oak-timber, with a view to the benefit of pofterity, feems 

 to have been of late years too much neglected in thefe 

 .kingdoms. And while every friend of human felicity muft 

 condemn the mif^uiiled ambition of a tyrannical prince, 

 who could deftroy whole villages to plant a foreft, he will 

 feel due folicitwle for thofe general advantages which 

 muft refult from better maxims of cultivation. 



It may not be deemed fo fully within the province of 

 this Society, to call on Government for its attention to 

 the management of Royal Forefts and Wafte Lands, as 

 to point out the benefits of a general improvement on the 

 eftates of individuals. Such a fpecies of improvement will 

 at leaft be liftened to, as a worthy and proper object of 

 rural ceconomy; and every exertion that may be excited 

 by fuch means, will have fome favourable influence in a 

 nation emulous of greatnefs and of fame. 



From this motive, we (hall not hefitate to fuggeft the 

 cafy and manifold advantages that would refult from in- 

 king plantations of oak-trees, on particular parts of 

 numerous eftates, from the lordly park, down to the fmall 

 cultivated farm. On the former, the growth of the oak 



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