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the information of my own countrymen, and is 

 intended to suit the narrower designs, and more 

 limited means of the Scottish planters. Should 

 the great planters of England, therefore, honour 

 these pages with their notice, they will have the 

 goodness altogether to pass over these Sections, 

 as inapplicable to them, and to the greatly larger, 

 and more important style of their works. 



In conclusion, I must be permitted to observe, 

 that the limited system, here advocated, stands 

 perhaps on as high ground, in respect of evidence 

 for its success, as any new theory ever brought 

 before the public. When the reader refers to the 

 able " Report of the Highland Society of Scot- 

 land," on the Woods at Allanton House (which 

 appears in the Appendix), and there finds the 

 mention of " feet and inches," as referring to the 

 height, or the girth of the trees, he will, of course, 

 reflect, that all size in the growth of plants is merely 

 relative, and is to be judged by their relative advan- 

 tages of soil and climate : Hence a shoot of two 

 or three feet long, which removed trees are found 

 to exhibit, in some of the openest exposures of 

 Lanarkshire, must correspond to six or eight feet 

 at least, in Hampshire or Devonshire, and so in 

 proportion, in other English chmates. 



