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Another kind of fituation for foreft plantation 

 demands our notice, namely, the bleak banks on. 

 the Ihores of the ocean. To places which lye 

 fomewhat inland, though on a large fcale they 

 may properly enough be reckoned in a maritime 

 diiirici, much of what has already been advanced 

 is applicable. We would therefore be under flood, 

 in the obfervations now to be made, as chiefly 

 confining ourfelves to the banks immediately on 

 the mores of the ocean, or its more confiderable 

 inlets. 



Such fituations have been reckoned the mod 

 untoward of jny for rearing timber ; and many 

 have had fufficient caufe, in their experience, to 

 acknowledge the truth of this opinion. The fat 

 is, that, very generally, the want of fuccefs has 

 been in confequence of planting thin, and. with 

 large plants, especially in fituations much ex- 

 poled. * 



We 



* The error of using large plants in any exposed situa- 

 tion, has operated very much against the interests of plant- 

 ing ; not only in maritime situations, but in others which 

 might be thought more favourable. The Scots probably 

 learned this practice from the sister kingdom ; for to this 

 day we see all over England, plants of five, seven, and e- 

 ven ten feet high, stuck into places very much exposed. 

 Plants so far advanced should never be employed : the con- 

 sequence of using them is, that even in the most favour- 

 able places, many of the plants never vegetate ; and in 



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