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is matter of disgrace; but, certainly, it 

 reflects no credit on any body.* 



In reflecting upon the wide-extended 

 waste occasioned by the defect just no- 

 ticed, some interesting considerations 

 ' present themselves. First, something is 

 wrong. Nature qualifies our trees to pro- 



* From the following paragraph, extracted from 

 the public Newspapers of the present year [1807], 

 we may form some idea of what has been, for many 

 ages, the management of Timber in the New Forest.— 



" It appears, by an order from the Lords Commis- 

 sioners of the Treasury, that an act passed in the 

 reign of William III. for the increase and preservation 

 of timber in the New Forest, and that two thousand 

 acres of that forest were enclosed for the jxrowth of 

 timber for the public service. As this timber becomes 

 past danger from the browzing of the deer, &c. the 

 inclosures are thrown open, and more waste land in- 

 closed to keep up the continual number of two thou- 

 sand enclosed acres. Agreeably with the abovemen- 

 tioned act, the Gazette gives notice that 1022 acres 

 are become past danger, and are thrown open, and 

 that an equal quantity of waste land is to be enclosed 

 in lieu thereof." 



