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ameliorated and improved by this wood, which is 
now eradicated and deftroyed; for certain it is, that 
land, which has been long fo occupied, is greatly 
improved thereby, and rendered fufficiently fertile 
to produce corn or grafs, if its fituation be not un- - 
favourable to fuch productions. 
That every kind of vegetable, from the loftieft 
oak to the minuteft plant, thrives better in fome 
foils than in others, is a truth which has efcaped 
the obfervation of few; and generally the better the 
foil, the more luxuriant the growth; but fortunately, 
a foil is rarely to be met with which cannot fupply 
nourifhment fufficient for the profitable growth of 
wood of fome fort. It is not always, or indeed 
often, that plantations of timber and other wood 
do not profper through poverty of foil, as has been 
commonly imagined; but generally from the fitua- 
tion being too much expofed to the unfriendly 
chilling quality of ftrong winds, which are injuri- 
ous, if not deftructive to vegetation, in every kind 
of fubject, and nothing fuffers more than timber 
and wood of all kinds, through want of protection 
and the kindly warmth it affords, as is very evident | 
from numberlefs inftances of ftrong healthy trees 
fuddenly falling into decay, upon imprudently cut- 
ting away the wood growing about them, and too 
fuddenly expofing them to the rigour of a cold and 
inclement fituation. 
Advan- 
