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with the fame vigour, owing, probably, to feverer 

 winters. 



Evergreens of all kinds fucceed remarkably well, 

 but efpecially along the fea fhore, where myrtles grow 

 to a confiderable lize, without covering of any kind 

 during the winter months. Upon the whole, this 

 country is very favourable to planting ; the deep lands 

 produce, of courfe, larger timber than {hallow foils, 

 but the wood of the latter, though longer coming to 

 its growth, is of fuperior hardnefs and durability ; 

 though not fo large at a given period of its growth, it 

 is much fooner fit for ufe. 



I fhall here infert, as a matter both of utility and of 

 curioflty, the dimenilons of a number of different kinds 

 of trees, growing nearly upon the fame foil within the 

 compafs of a few acres ; the foil, fuch as a great 

 part of this county affords, a kindly loam, with rock 

 or gravel at no great depth from the furface in any 

 part. 



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