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Letter V* „ . . 



^in EJJay on the Growth of Ot^Sy'Md on the Prd* 

 duSfion of Crooked Timber for Naval Purpofes.J 



'* Let India boaft her plants, nor envy we 



** The weeping amber and the balmy tree, 



•« While by our Oaks the precious loads are bon1« 



>< And realms commanded which thofe trees adorn/* 



Sir, 



PROVIDENCE with infinite wifdom hath or- 

 dained, that every country fliould abound m 

 productions the molt uleful or falutary to its inha- 



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• Among the amufements which the country affords, I know none 

 more delightful in itielf, and beneficial to tl\e publick, tllan that of 

 Planting. I could mention a nobleman, whofe fortune has placed 

 lum in fevei-al parts of England, and who has always left thefe vi- 

 able marks behind him, which Ihew he has been there ; he never 

 hired a houfe in his life, without leaving, all about it, the feeds of 

 wealth, and bellowing legacies on the poilerity of the owner. Had 

 all the gentlemen of England made the fame improvements upon 

 their eftates, the whole country would have been at tliis time as 

 one great garden. Nor ought fuch an employment to be looked 

 upon as too inglorious for men of the higheft rank. There have 

 been heroes in this art, as well as in others. ' We are told in parftiT 

 cular, of Cyfus the Great, that he planted all the Leffer Afia, 

 There is indeed fomething truly magnificent in this kind of amufe- 



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• WUUam Dake of Cumberland, Bagfliot Heatlu 



