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ordinary field of fourteen acres with fuckers of 

 this plant, in the year of his marriage, as 

 a portion for his children. His eldeft fon 

 married at twenty-two. On this occafion the 

 farmer cut about three hundred pounds worth 

 of timber out of his acacia wood, which he 

 gave his fon to buy a fettlement in Lancafler 

 county. Three years after, he did as much 

 for a daughter. And thus he provided for 

 his whole family ; the wood in the mean time 

 repairing by fuckers, all the lofTes it received. 



I mail conclude my account of deciduous 

 trees with the larch, which is a kind of 

 connecting fpecies between them, and the race 

 of ever-greens. Tho it fheds it's leaf with 

 the former ; it bears a cone, is refinous, and 

 ramifies like the latter. It claims the Alps, 

 and Apennines for it's native country; where 

 it thrives in higher regions of the air, than 

 any tree of its confequence is known to do ; 

 hanging over rocks, and precipices, which have 

 never been vifited by human feet. Often it 

 is felled by the alpine peafant, and thrown 

 athwart fome yawning chafm, where it affords 

 a tremendous paffage from cliff to cliff; while 



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