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discreetly ; I read of one Mr Christopher Darell a 

 Surrey gentleman of Nudigate, that had a particular 

 indulgence for the cutting of his woods at pleasure, 

 though a great iron-master; because he so ordered 

 his works, that they were a means of preserving even 

 his woods; notwithstanding those unsatiable devourers: 

 This may appear a paradox, but it is to be made out ; 

 and I have heard my own father (whose estate was 

 none of the least wooded in England) affirm, that a 

 forge, and some other mills, to which he furnished 

 much fuel, were a means of maintaining and improv- 

 ing his woods; I suppose, by increasing the industry 

 of planting, and care ; as what he left standing of 

 his own planting, enclosing and cherishing, lately in 

 the possession of my most honoured brother George 

 Evelin of Wotton in the same county, (and now 

 in mine) did (before the late hurricane) sufficiently 

 evince; a most laudable monument of his industry, 

 and rare example, for without such an example, and 

 such an application, I am no advocate for iron-works, 

 but a declared denouncer: But nature has thought fit 

 to produce this wasting oar more plentifully in wood- 

 land, than any other ground, and to enrich our forests 

 to their own destruction, 



1 O poverty, still safe ! and therefore found 

 Inseparably with mischiefs under ground ! 

 Woods tall, and reverend from all time appear 

 Inviolable, where no mine is near. 



for so our sweet poet deplores the fate of the Forest 

 of Dean. 



1 O semper bona pauperies ! & conditus alta 

 Thesaurus tellure nocens ! O semper ovantes, 

 Integrae, salvaeque solo non divite Silvae ! 



Couleii PI. 1. 6. 



