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will point out the neceffity of protecting thern when 
planted, and the mode of management mott pro- 
per and natural for them, according to their feveral 
foils and fituations; there is at prefent no great 
reafon to apprehend that any fuch fcarcity of under- 
wood or timber can happen, as will make the want 
thereof alarming; and as to the advance in the price 
- of underwood and timber, /o much talked of by all per~ 
Sons, and fo much dreaded bym any ;—a moment’s con- 
fideration will convince them, that no laws that 
could be made for the prefervation of woods would 
fo effectually contribute thereto, as the idea shat the 
land fo applied will pay as well or betier than in any 
other fate of cultivation. And as the value of, both 
arable and pafture land in this kingdom, has been 
regularly on the increafe for many years paft, and 
is ftill increafing, it 7s neceffary that tbe price of 
underwood and timber foould increafe in the fame pro- 
portion; and fo far from being alarmed at’ the ad- 
vance in the price of the productions of woods, we 
thould confider shat this very advance is the beft Secu 
rity we cau have for their prefervation, 
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