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reader of the incalculable benefit society 

 has received, by attending to, and acting 

 upon, the hints furnished by such common 

 circumstances. It is not said thatthe train- 

 ing of timber is of equal importance with 

 the invention of a Plough ; but it may be 

 asserted, that the country is quite as much 

 interested in it, as in the use of puddle, or 

 the application of steam. Indeed, its use 

 and good effects are as fully ascertained as 

 either of them. Every tree with a clean 

 stem, from four feet and upwards in length, 

 being completely a trained 07ie ; as unas- 

 sisted nature forms none of the sort*. 



* We expect numerous objections to be raised to 

 this doctrine: — but such as are inclined to make them 

 should first consider, when and X(jhere they have seen 

 trees, absolutely in a state of nature. — Four means have 

 been mentioned, by which trees, usually supposed to 

 be in such stale, get pruned ; and we may add a fifth, 

 ■which does more than they all, namely, a limited 

 quantity of air ; the consequence of trees standing 

 near each other. — This certainly is one means of im- 

 provement ; but we cannot admit trees under its in- 

 fluence to be strictly in a state of nature ; as that can 



