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Very different from this is the drive too often adopted, which 



is an op 



Drive, so wide that it 



goes near 



trees 



which admits such a current of air, that the front trees are gene- 

 rally the worst in the plantation. Add to this, that two narrow 

 slips of plantation will neither grow so well, nor be such effectual 

 harbours for game, as deeper masses; especially where 1 he game 



is liable to be disturbed 

 may be useful as a scree i 



a drive betwixt them. 



The 



e 



but unless very deep, it should 



e use 



as 



drive: at least till after ihe trees h 



acmiirc 



their growth, when a drive may be cut through the wood 



to 



advantage 



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It is not only the line of the modern belt an 



dri 



rive 



that i 



is 



objectionable, but also the manner in which the plantation 



■ 



is made, by the indiscriminate mixture of every kind of trees, 



particularly Firs and Larches. *' « 



All variety is lost, and all contrast destroyed, by different 

 genera; by the recurrence and monotony of the same mixture 

 of trees of all the different kinds. And here I must not omit 



my full tribute of applause to that part of the Drive at YV oburn, 

 in which evergreens alone prevail: it is a circumstance of gran- 



