258 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



improved as to lighten the burden of car- 

 riage, if not to the Ocean or navigable rivers, 

 part of the way at least ? 



Witness the wood of Glenmore in the High- 

 lands of Scotland. Man is an active and 

 enterprising being. Who could have di- 

 vined, half a century back, that from Gkn- 

 more should spring a ship of war, and many 

 goodly merchant-men ; and, that S^ey should 

 be rendered the means of conveyance to the 

 Ocean ! Wherefore, let it not be said, " I 

 am sensible, that although yonder hill would 

 never produce crops of grain, nor is worth 

 much for pasture, it might be made to pro- 

 duce good timber ; but, were I even to plant 

 it, where is the possibility of conveyance to 

 a market ?" &c. Who knows where even 

 a city shall stand ! 



What district in the country is to be found 

 of any considerable extent, where some parts 

 might not, by being planted, be rendered 

 more valuable ? Is there even an estate of 

 any considerable magnitude, in which the 

 value of sonie corner might not, by being 

 planted with timber trees, be enhanced ? 



