.'SOIL FOR 



on the low ground the trees were in general 

 four inches more in-diameter than thofe on 

 the rifing 'poor land, but the wood was not 

 fo good, it was white and fpongy ; the 

 other was firm and of a good red colour, 

 2nd of much greater value. 



THE Wcy mouth Pine is thebeautifuilefk 

 of all the Pine kinds, but is tenderer than 

 any of them ; by the growing of the wood 

 it feems to be finer than any of the others, 

 but as yet there have none been cut of a 

 fufRcient age in England to know its good- 

 nefs ; neither have there been many large 

 plantations planted of them, for what has 

 been planted are moflly for pleafure, and 

 mod of them in good ground and warm 

 fituations, where they have throve very 

 well : they will alfo grow in indifferent 

 foil, but ihould be flickered from the north, 

 and weft winds. 



