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vated the ground, in order that, when the land settlement 

 came to be made, they should be able to claim the land 

 as havins been under cultivation since the time of their 

 forefathers. 



Happily, man is not altogether a forest destroyer ; 

 and, in more recent days especially, the civilised races 

 have come to understand and to believe, with many 

 reservations unfortunately, that the destruction of forests 

 must be limited, and that, by a proper treatment, they 

 may not only be preserved but improved. 



