FORESTS AND GROVES. Jj 



tire ; becaufe, in this cafe, they will not fo feverely 

 feel the effects of the prevailing blafts from the 

 fouth-weft. 



In fuch broken fituations, the plantation might 

 be very much extended at once ; as many parts of 

 the ground, from its inequalities, would be well 

 flickered, and the trees would rife freely, parti- 

 cularly in the hollows, and on the banks of rivu- 

 lets and rivers. 



It is in fuch fituations that Nature has planted 

 moft of her forefts ; and to follow her plans of 

 procedure, is by far the fureft way of fecuring 

 ultimate fuccefs. 



The land proprietor, however, previous to com- 

 mencing the eftabllfhment of a foreft, will no 

 doubt confider well his particular fituation, with 

 refpedt to a vent for the produce. The vicinity 

 or pofition of public roads, canals, or navigable 

 rivers, are points of the firft confideration ; and, 

 next, the probability of an improvement in thefe 

 different means of conveying the timber to a mar- 

 ket. If his property lye contiguous to a navi- 

 gable river, canal, or the fea, his cafe may then 

 be reckoned moft favourable. But though thefe 

 fhould be diftant, he ought not to be difcouraged* 

 Many proprietors in the north of Scotland have 

 been benefited by a method of conveying the pro- 

 duce of their far-inland forefts to the ocean, never 

 perhaps thought of by the planters of them. We 

 here allude to the cuts, or fmall canals, made in 



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