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years, which has experienced an ordinary 

 culture under corn and grass. 



But I would wish to point out the Import- 

 ance and value, not only of planting and 

 cultivating young timber, but also that of 

 RECLAIMING, so far as may be practicable, 

 all neglected timber throughout the kingdom. 

 The former is highly commendable, inas- 

 much as it tends to provide for posterity an 

 indispensably necessary and useful material ; 

 which, perhaps, at a future period, may be 

 hard to purchase in a foreign land. By the 

 latter, much useful timber might be ren- 

 dered serviceable to the present age ; and 

 its living proprietors might witness the fact 

 in gladness, and see much money spared to 

 the nation which is now paid for imported 

 timber. 



Without saying a word about the proba- 

 ble scarcity of SHIP-TIMBER at a future pe- 

 riod, which it becomes our duty to prevent 

 by all possible means, we certainly /<?/, and 

 have to lament the real scarcity, not only of 

 that, but of much domestic timber at the 

 present time. But, are \ve conscious that 

 foreign timber is superior in quality to that 



