104 FORESTS. 



son, is sure of heaven. It is to be regretted, that 

 some strong and similar inducement does not 

 operate in America. 



All the roads and canals ought to be lined with 

 forest trees. The shade will be agreeable, and 

 the view delightful to travellers. 



The Americans are a ship-building people. A?4, 

 it is calculaied, will take the wood of fifty acres. 

 Is it not time for them to look out for futurity, 

 and not to anticipate the supplies of future gene- 

 rations ? 



In passing from Rome to Syracuse, you see 

 nothing but one great forest, which must contain 

 many millions of cords of wood : but already have 

 the axe and the fire-brand been applied, and 

 before the lapse of 50 years, these immense woods 

 will fall before the hand of cultivation. What 

 then will become of the great manufactories of 

 salt, unless coal is discovered, or plantation adop- 

 ted f Both must be attended to — wood will always 

 be required for navigable and architectural pur- 

 poses. The swamps west of Rome are filled with 

 turf or peat, as I perceived from the canal packet 



