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in ea parte funt, quas ad feptentrionem eft) 

 cuniculifve nutriendis relicta eft inculta : quippe 

 pamm funt ejufmodi ferarum vivaria, feu ro- 

 boraria, quas lignis roboreis funt claufa : unde 

 multa venatio, qua fe nobiles cum primis 

 exercent." 



In this paflage the foreft feems to be dif- 

 tinguimed 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 mip-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 refpect 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 marmy grounds ; which abounded indeed 



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