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of all situations for producing a large 

 quantity of valuable Timber. 



To those who have been at the expence 

 of making Plantations, few argunients 

 will, I trust, be necessary, to induce them 

 to follow it up with adequate attention. 

 The act is certainly evidence of a portion 

 of public spirit, as well as a proper sense 

 of private utility. We trust there are 

 thousancls in the United Kingdom actuat- 

 ed by such laudable motives ; nor can it 

 be an arrogant presumption to suppose, 

 that what has advanced, will attract the 

 attention of a few hundreds of them, in the 

 first instance ; and, if so, the business of 

 improvement will most assuredly spread: 

 a beneficial example will be a moving 

 principle, w4iere a precept, equally good, 

 would be a dead letter. — ^To such cha- 

 racters the author looks, with a peculiar 

 degree of complacency and expectation. 

 The spirit that first induced them to plant 



