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known, not before the trees are fit for 

 cutting ; for there are many kinds of wood 

 which is good for nothing until it comes 

 to its proper age, which is then very good ; 

 and many kinds that are pretty good when 

 young, but when old are good for little. 



FOR which reafons it will not be pru- 

 dent to plant large plantations for profit 

 with trees, let them be never fo well re- 

 commended, until the goodnefs of the 

 wood is well known. 



I HAVE been informed by feveral gentle- 

 men that have been many years in Ame- 

 rica, that in the large and fine growing 

 woods there the foil in general is a fine 

 light loam of a great depth, fuch as is in 

 our valleys by river fides, and are perfectly 

 dry. 



IF a large plantation was made on fuch 

 ground in England (for if there are only 

 a few trees planted they will never make 

 fine timber), and if the water does not lay 



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