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bring it to the usual breadth. We may 

 add too, that such have always a reason* 

 able time for seasoning, generally a very 

 long one ; and we may be sure they are 

 taken down at a proper season. 



The above, which may be called fa* 

 vourable circumstances, form a very strik- 

 ing contrast with the state of our own. 

 It is generally produced in situations 

 somewhat warmer, therefore it grows 

 quicker; it is cut down young and small, 

 and used with the greater part of the sap, 

 or later years' growth upon it ; and as to 

 the time for taking down and seasoning, 

 neither seems yet to have been attended 

 to. We do not expect to reap the other 

 products of the Earth in perfection, 

 without bestowing somewhat of care 

 or management upon them ; and it is 

 equally disgraceful to the national in- 

 dustry and intellect, to condemn the 

 article, as radically bad, till every pro- 

 bable, and even possible means have 



