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them, keeps his land effe&ually clean, and faves, 

 him a confiderable expence in hoeing (c). 



Mr. Windham, of Felbrigg, is alfo a confider- 

 able modern planter. His plantations are defigned 

 to anfwer two purpofes, to ornament and belt 

 round his park, and to extend his great woodland 

 fcene nearer the fea, towards which, at two miles 

 diftance, it forms a grand bulwark, and from which 

 he looks down an eafy declivity, over a bold fhore, 

 to an unlimited profpecl; on the German ocean. 

 Moft of his plantations have been raifed from feed; 

 and there is one that Hands unrivalled ; it was 

 fown with acorns, Spanifh chefnut, and beech- 

 maft, feventeen years fince ; has been already twice 

 thinned for hurdle wood ; the trees, moft of which 

 are thirty feet high, being at the regular diftance of 

 twelve feet, with a valuable underwood at four feet 

 diftance. This plantation was taken out of the 

 park, was well fallowed the preceding fummer to 

 its being fown, and, during this ftate, there was a 

 flock of ftieep in the park, which were continually 

 laying on the fallows, to which, in a great meafure, 

 I attribute its aftonifhing floridity, as it furpaffes 

 every thing of the kind I ever faw, and therefore I 

 mention this as a thing worth attending to. 



There is another plantation which is highly de- 



ferving notice and imitation ; it is a belt fixty-fix 



yards wide and nine miles round, inclofing the 



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