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in ea parte funt, quae ad feptentrionem eft) 

 cuniculifve nutriendis relicla eft inculta : quippe 

 paflim funt ejufmodi ferarum vivaria, feu ro- 

 boraria, quae lignis roboreis funt claufa : unde 

 multa venatio, quae fe nobiles cum primis 

 exercent." 



In this paflage the foreft feems to be dif- 

 tinguiflied from the park ; which latter was 

 fenced, in thofe days, with oak pales, as it 

 is now. 



As Britain became more cultivated, it's 

 woods of courfe receded. They gave way, 

 as in other places to the plough, to paf- 

 turage, to fhip-building, to architecture ; and 

 different objects of human induftry, in which 

 timber is the principal material; obtaining 

 for that reafon, among the Romans, the 

 pointed appellation of materies. 



That our woods were often cut down 

 merely for the fake of tillage, and pafturage, 

 without any refpe6l to the ufes of timber, 

 feems to be evident from the great quantities 

 of fubterraneous trees, dug up in various 

 parts of England. They are chiefly found 

 in marfhy grounds - 3 which abounded indeed 



3 eveiy 



