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other parts of New Jerfey, to the town of 

 tiew Tork, from whence they are diftri- 

 buted throughout the province. A quantity 

 of white cedar wood is likewife exported 

 every year to the Weft-Indies* for fhingles, 

 pipe fiaves, &c. Thus the inhabitants are 

 very bufy here, not only to leflen the num- 

 ber of thele trees, but even to extirpate 

 them entirely. They are here (and in 

 many other places) in regard to wood, bent 

 only upon their own prefent advantage* 

 utterly regardlefs of poflerity. By this 

 means many cedar fwamps are already quite 

 deftitute of cedars, having only young 

 fhoots left ; and I plainly ohferved, by- 

 counting the circles round the ftem, that 

 they do not grow up very quickly, but re- 

 quire a great deal of time before they can 

 be cut for timber. It is well known that a 

 tree gets only one circle every year ; a ftem, 

 eighteen inches in diameter, had one hun- 

 dred and eight circles round the thicker 

 end - y another, feventeen inches in diametet, 

 had a hundred and fixteen ; and another, 

 two feet in diameter, had one hundred and 

 forty-two circles upon it. Thus near 

 eighty years growth is required, before a 

 white cedar raifed from feed can be ufed for 

 timber. Among the advantages which the 

 white cedar mingles have over others, the 

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