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that there are particular Juices in that Land 

 that feed the hairy Fibres. But I very much 

 doubt, after all, that were Perfons to truft 

 to large-planted Trees, they would be very 

 much deceived 5 and I have, in Lands very 

 much like it, tried Trees taken out of Woods, 

 but all to no Purpofe : For which Reafon I 

 would advife no Gentleman to depend on a- 

 ny thing but Sowing, except he is refolved 

 to open large Holes, or raife good high 

 Banks, (as I have before directed 3) but a- 

 bove all, that they do not truft to Trees 

 taken out of the Woods, except, upon trial, 

 they find them full of Fibres. In this Ground 

 we fow (or, by great Care, may plant) Afh, 

 Beech, Hornbeam, Witch-Hazle, Witch-Elm, 

 with fome few Trees, not much to our Pur- 

 pofe to enumerate. 

 neSm of Thus have I run through the Three Sorts 

 '^^' of Poor Dry Land I have obferved, ( viz. ) 

 a Shallow Hearthy Land with a Gravelly 

 Dry Bottom 5 a Barren Deep Land, on which, 

 generally fpeaking, there is a great deal of 

 Fern -^ and Poor I3arren Land, upon Rocks 

 of Chalk or Loofe Stone. Middling Lands, 

 as good Pafture, Wheat and Barley-Land, 

 will produce any Tree : For which reafon 

 I fhail omit that, and come to Wet Lands, 

 of which I have likewife obferv'd three forts: 

 The firft is a Moorifli Boggy Land 3 the 

 other a Wet Springy Land on Gravel 3 and 

 the other a Cold Clay. Upon the firft of 

 thefe we have our largeft Alders, Willows, 



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