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SECTION IV. 



Maritime Situations. 



FROM what has been advanced, to recapi- 

 tulate the kinds and their virtues, obviously 

 desirable for cultivation in the district under 

 consideration, would be trifling with the time 

 and patience of the reader. Suffice it, in 

 respect of this, to say, that the attempt should 

 be made, and persevered in, so far as pru- 

 dence will permit, to rear all the kinds enu- 

 merated in last section; to which, however, 

 may be added the Sycamore and Elder, as 

 nurses, which are known to bear the sea 

 breeze better than any other. 



To sites which lie somewhat inland) 

 though on a large scale they may properly 

 enough be reckoned in a maritime district, 

 much of what has been advanced in the pre- 

 ceding section will apply. I would be un- 

 derstood, by what here follows, as chiefly con- 

 fining my observations to the brink of the 

 ocean, or its larger inlets. 



The situation under view is reckoned the 

 most untoward of an}' on which timber may 



