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polish, is well suited for making furniture. We 

 may suppose that it was much esteemed by the 

 ancients. Virgil writes — 



" A maple throne raised hifjher than the ground 

 Received the Trojan chief." 



There are quite twenty species and varieties of 

 the maple growing in England, but our present 

 subject and the two previously noticed are those 

 most generally met with. 



