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a foreground^ is rarely feen. Wherever trees 

 can be turned to profit, they are commonly 

 cut down, long before they attain piclurefque 

 perfection. The beauty of almoft every fpecies 

 of tree increafes after it's prime ; and unlefs 

 it have the good fortune to fland in fome 

 place of difficult accefs ; or under the pro- 

 tection of fome patron, whofe manfion 

 it adorns, we rarely fee it in that gran- 

 deur and dignity, which it would acquire by 

 age. 



Some of the nobleft oaks in England were 

 at leaft formerly found in Suflex. They re- 

 quired fometimes a fcore of oxen to draw 

 them; and were carried in a fort of wain, 

 which in that deep country, is exprefllvely 

 called a tugg. Two or three years was not 

 an uncommon fpace of time for a tree to 

 fpend in performing it's journey to Chatham. 

 One tugg carried the load but a little way, 

 and left it for another tugg to take up. If 

 the rains fet in, it ftirred no more that 

 year; and fometimes no part of the next 

 fummer was dry enough for the tugg to 

 proceed. So that the timber was generally 



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