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the evil intended to be prevented, is not 

 generally promoted by such means, must 

 be left to the intelligent. 



As to the particular case of the Larch, 

 I can have no doubt ; indeed, the only 

 case, in which I have yet found any 

 Larch wood rotten, that had not been 

 in the ground, or exposed to alternate 

 drought and moisture, is that of rails, ^c. 

 managed as the above, namel}^, cut 

 down green, then disbarked, and after- 

 wards used whole. Within a few hun- 

 dred yards of where I am writing, there 

 are many such, decayed less or more, 

 in and about the cracks; in some fevv 

 instances, all the sappy part is gone 

 from one side, for more than a foot in 

 length ; while, or^ other parts of the same 

 rails, where no cracks appear, or where 

 parts of the bark have been left on, the 

 wood is as sound as when first pat up. If, 

 after this, people will persist in the prac- 

 tice, I can only say, the fault h not mine. 



