30 for a Country SeaL 



is by no means good for Timber, for being 

 full of Land Springs (which is Water run- 

 ning within the Earth, or is difcover'd by 

 breaking out or fpewing up in many Places) 

 This and the like I (ay are not good to plant 

 or fow Timber Trees in, becauie after the 

 Roots of the Trees have pafled downwards 

 deeper than the good Earth, the young and 

 tender Shoots of Roots (being the Fibres) 

 are by too much Moifture and cold Water 

 within the Earth bechill'd and benumm'd, 

 lb that they have not Strength enough to 

 entertaiji the Earth underneath the Water, 

 or if they do, the Water, like a troublefome 

 and unwelcome Gueft, will be following af- 

 ter, and thereby hinders them in their Growth, 

 and confequently ruins the Progrefs of the 

 Tree; and tho' the Abeal, and fome other 

 one of the Aqaatick Tribe, will do tolerably 

 well in thele Gravely Spewy Lands we have 

 been fpcaking of, as well as in other dry 

 hungry ones ; yet it would be in vain to 

 think of planting Oak, Alh, Beech, or even 

 Elm, tho* an Aquatick, at any large Size^ for 

 thefe Bottoms are as bad as the flrongeft 

 Clays, v/hich are fo very tenacious of Water 

 and Rain, that We every Day fee Trees pine 

 away and die therein : For tho' there is in 

 many Places Oak, &c^ that do grow in thefe 

 Kinds of Land, yet this we muft attribute 

 to Nature, that is to their being fow'd there, 

 or to their fpringing up from the natural 



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