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must, to be consistent, induce them to 

 give his precepts a fair trial.* 



* From the number of copies which have been sold, 

 and the opinion entertained of their utility, by many 

 of the first characters for rank and intclHgence in the 

 country, we may be assured that not ^.few anhj, but 

 maiiTj hundreds, are now reducing the precepts liere 

 delivered to practice. Certainly, many such have 

 already, in part at least, seen their beneficial effects ; 

 and hence the practice spreads in every direction. 

 One, and one only, who comes forward as an author, 

 propria, persona, has lifted bis pen against it in the 

 way of argument. He gives us to understand, as a 

 general maxim, (what we certainly should neither have 

 understood, nor believed without some such help) that 

 such a method must damage the timber because it 

 causes the trees to grow too fast. But verily, if the 

 *' Forest Primer''^ has paddled upon the surface of 

 error, our autJior has plunged into the stream; — for, 

 among numerous passages equally valuable, he treats 

 us with the following:- — 'Hf we suppose that trees 

 grow only twice as fast where the soil is prepared, 

 as where it is not, then a plantation worth 100^. in 

 fifty years, had the soil been prepared, would have 

 been worth 200=g?. in the same time, or worth 100c£. 

 in twenty-five years. But every one will allow that 

 all kinds of deciduous trees will grow four ox six times y 



