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fycamore excepted; thefe, efpecially the beech, feem 
to thrive in every foil and fituation, in defiance of 
all wind and weather. Not fo the oak and afh; the 
firft particularly fuffers as much for want of warmth 
and protection, as any tree which is a native of 
this ifland. 
From the above account of the fuccefs of thefe 
plantations it evidently appears, that planting fuch 
foils with wood would be attended with the greateft 
advantages; not only as affording a large profit 
arifing out of the thing itfelf, independent of every 
collateral confideration; but as the certain means 
of improving very large tracts of land, which in 
their prefent condition are of very little value, and 
by no means capable of improvement, but by being 
forced in and planted with wood. In this country 
are vaft tracts of land called moors: they are not 
wafte nor commons, but appropriated, though not 
inclofed ; but the owners have a right to inclofe 
them if they choofe it. The prefent value of them 
is fo inconfiderable, that they are not thought worth 
any expence being beftowed upon them. The only 
ufe that is made of them, is to turn out a few fheep 
upon them, where they run four or perhaps five 
months at moft in the year only. The fituation 
-is fo exceedingly expofed, cold and bleak, that it 
bears no grafs before the month of June, nor after 
October, but if it did, no cattle could fubfift upon 
it without being well fheltered, 
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