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Iq Great Britain, this art may be presumed to be indispensa- 

 ble and invaluable ; but in a great portion of the United States, 

 the denuding propensities of the early settler has so constantly 

 maintained an exterminating war against those boundless and 

 magnificent forests which clothed the land from the rising to 

 the setting sun, and his relentless axe has so nearly swept away, 

 in the neighbourhood of towns and dweUings, those beautiful 

 creations of nature, which in other countries are objects of 

 affectionate interest, and cherished with feelings bordering on 

 veneration — indeed, to such a radical extent has this oblitera- 

 ting crime been carried, that it might be a question, whether 

 this art, for purposes of ornament, is not as necessary here as 

 in England. 



To the wealthy and the man of taste this work may be safely 

 recommended as containing the best information on the subject 

 on which it treats. 



G. THORBURN & SONS. 



New-York, Sept. 1832. 

 67 Liberty-street. 



