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of the grandeur of vegetable nature. They 

 are extremely beautiful in the plantations 

 about Dorking. Where 



" attractive is the woodland scene, 



Diversified with trees of every growth." 



In his travels, the antiquarian finds in every 

 country remarkable spots distinguished, and 

 memorable transactions stamped on the me- 

 mory by venerable trees, which cannot be 

 removed by the whim of men so easily as mo- 

 numents of marble, or statues of brass, which 

 often travel from their sacred abodes to where- 

 ever war drives or gold leads them. How 

 could we have ornamented our country more, 

 than by planting our highesthills with cedars, to 

 have commemorated the victories of the late 

 war ? The traveller would have had his mind 

 recalled to the battle of Trafalgar, and his 

 road pointed out by the plantation of the Nile; 

 they would have been glorious landmarks to 

 the British sailors, and lasting monuments of 

 their fame, whilst the interior hills should be 

 marked by these vegetable monuments of 

 military fame, that would console the peas- 

 ants who had lost their friends in war, and 

 rouse them to resent any attempt at invasion. 

 The only relic of Dr. James Sherard's 

 famous botanic garden at Eltham, so ele- 



