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ping, Panbet, Chute, &c. forests for the most part 

 without trees : And several of them together hereto- 

 fore comprehended in that vast Andradswald already 

 mentioned, of one county only : There were formerly 

 twenty groves in Clarendon-Park near Salisbury, cele- 

 brated by Mesokerus, cited by Camden, that were 

 every one of them a mile in compass. In a word, to 

 give an instance of what store of woods and timber 

 of prodigious size, there were growing in our little 

 county of Surrey, (the nearest of any to London) and 

 plentifully furnished both for profit and pleasure, 

 (with sufficient grief and reluctancy I speak it) my 

 own grandfather had standing at Wotton, and about 

 that estate, timber, that now were worth looooo/. 

 Since of what was left my father, (who was a great 

 preserver of wood) there has been 3Ooo/. worth of 

 timber fallen by the ax, and the fury of the late hur- 

 ricane and storm : Now no more Wotton, stript and 

 naked, and ashamed almost to own its name. 



All which considered (for there are many other 

 places and estates which have suffer'd the like calam- 

 ity), should raise, methinks, a new spirit of industry in 

 the nobility and gentry of the whole nation, like that 

 which Nehemiah inspir'd the nobles, as well as the 

 people of the captivity 1 (than which nothing so much 

 resembled that tedious slavery, and return from it, 

 than did the restoration of King Charles II) Let us 

 arise up (says the brave man), and build; and so they 

 strengthened their hand, for the people had a mind to 

 the work. And such an universal spirit and resolution, 

 to fall to planting, for the repairing of our wooden- 

 walls and castles, as well as of our estates, should truly 

 animate us : Let us arise then and plant, and not give 



1 Nehem. c. 2, v. 18. 



