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home, and are more calculated for grow- 

 ing better forts of timber. 



When real ufe only is confidered, we 

 iliall find that a very few trees, in fpe- 

 eies, will be fufficient to anfwer all our 

 purpofes. 



The oak claims our firft regard: its 

 ufe is general, and eifential ; and though 

 neceffity might teach us to ihift without 

 other timber, this alone, when we con- 

 iider the importance of our navy, is what 

 we cannot difpenfe with, without feeling 

 the greatell: inconvenience. 



Ajh is perhaps the fecond timber, in 

 point of utility, though it be far from 

 being held in univerfal efteem. It has 

 many enemies, becaufe the wet, which 

 drips from it, is very noxious to mofl 

 other plants. And as it ilioots its roots 

 horizontally, and pretty near the furface, 

 farmers have a particular diflike to it, 

 n becaufe 



