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will require no further trouble for many 

 years. 



IT may be imagined that fawn trees left 

 at three feet diftan.ee would be fo thick as 

 never to grow to timber ; in tolerably good 

 foil it would be improper, but in poor 

 gravelly and fandy land they grow very 

 flow for feveral years, and never begin to 

 make any great progrefs until they ihelter 

 and keep one another warm ; they alfo 

 grow much differ and ibronger in the ftem, 

 and their fide-branches do not extend near 

 fo faft as in good land ; therefore their be- 

 ing {own thick is a very great advantage, 

 and the only method to make them thrive. 



THERE is nothing further to be done 

 until the plantation becomes quite a 

 thicket, then every other tree muft be 

 fhib-felle.d, and they will be fit for many 

 ufes. 



THE trees to be taken away (as they 

 will not be drawn weak on fuch ground) 



may 



