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We are here to diftinguifh between the banks 

 of the Thames, the Severn, the Humber, the 

 Solway, or the Clyde, and thofe of the open fea* 

 On the former where the tide flows for many 

 miles, we meet with multitudes of thriving plan- 

 tations 5 and many fituations well adapted for 

 rearing of others, where no more than ordinary 

 care has been or may be neceflary ; and we alfo 

 find fome fituations of an oppofite defcription,, 

 which we would wifli to clafs with the bleak brinks 

 ef the open ocean* 



When 



those much exposed, perhaps not one plant in four shows a 

 leaf the second year. The truth is, the more exposed the 

 situation, the smaller should the plants be, even down to 

 ten, nine, eight, seven, six or five inches in height. 



It is a very general opinion, that sea air is more noxious 

 or unfavourable to the growth of trees, than of grain or 

 herbage ; which opinion is strengthened by the circumstance 

 of trees, planted near the sea, being very generally stunted 

 in growth. It may here be remarked, however, that it u- 

 mformly happens, that the larger the trees have been when 

 planted, so much the more are they stunted. We are fully 

 of opinion, that there must be a defect of method, or too 

 great a change of soil and climate, or perhaps both, when 

 trees cannot be raised on the banks of the sea- shore. The 

 bleakest of our coasts have formerly been covered with 

 wood ; as the many large trees dug out of the mosses in th& 

 maritime district of Buchan, and elsewhere, fully evince. 

 Even more durable remains exhibit the fact. We know of 

 a number of roots of petrified trees, on the margin of the 

 sea, between Dysart and Wemyss in Fifeshire, at present 

 standing in a puddingstone ba*, 



