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at this place, which exhibit the same general health, and 

 progressive vigour, as the Removed Woods, whether it be 

 in open groups, or close plantations, as the committee of the 

 Highland Society has amply attested. And, should they 

 continue by the one half only as rapidly progressive, for the 

 time to come, the axe must interpose, in order to prevent 

 them from obscuring the glades, or blotting out the distances 

 of the landscape. 



