WOODCRAFT 263 



As it is on some of our once remote coast- 

 lines, so it is now in the heart of the wood- 

 lands, and races once distinct, with all their 

 virtues and faults if exclusiveness and plain 

 speaking are considered to be faults have, I 

 believe, at the present time, by the force of 

 circumstances, got merged into other elements 

 and have almost passed away. 



