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and winter's cold. They also bring the 

 proprietor acquainted with what his 

 woods contain. In short, to persons of 

 opulence, who are proud of such property, 

 a system of this description must be pe- 

 cuHarly gratifying; as, in addition to 

 every other advantage, it aftbrds the 

 means of producing, in a given space, the 

 greatest possible quantity of fine timber. 



To proprietors, under different circum- 

 stances, it has also strong recommenda- 

 tions ; as, in addition to increased pro- 

 duce, as before-mentioned, it gives the 

 facility of taking down, annually or other- 

 wise, just so much as may be deemed 

 prudent, without the reproach of poverty 

 following it : for if a Wood, on a tolerable 

 soil, and not deficient of plants, had been 

 managed a dozen years according to this 

 system, no man could say, with truth, it 

 was in bad condition; though there miiiht 

 not be a tree left in it worth forty shillings. 

 It could not, indeed, be said, to be then 



