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When the bank is highly elevated above the 

 level of the fea, fuccefs may be more reafonably 

 expe&ed, than when it lyes low and flat ; provid- 

 ed the foil of the higher ground be not materially 

 worfe, than that of the lower or more flat ground $ 

 \vhich however it generally is* 



There is what fearnen term a lull or lee shore, 

 which extends in breadth from five hundred to 

 two thoufand yards, more or left, according to 

 the fteepnefs or flatnefs of the bank ; the current 

 of wind pafling in a direct line between fome cer- 

 tain point on the furface of the water, and the 

 fummit of the bank. Suppofing this to be the 

 cafe, muft not the lower part of the Hoping bank 

 be equally included in the lull with the margin of 

 the water ? In the other cafe, namely, where the 

 land rifes but little above the level of the water, 

 the wind paifes, as it were, over one continued 

 plain ; accumulating humidity and cold, and in- 

 creafing in velocity, till it wreak its vengeance on 

 fome diftant high ground. 



Thus the plantation fituated on the elevated 

 fea-bank, excepting fuch part of it as extends to 

 the very fummit, may be more flickered, and 

 better fecured from the bad effects of ftrong pre- 

 vailing winds, than that fituated on the plain, 

 which extends to the margin of the water, with- 

 .out an adjoining elevated ground to break their 

 defoliating force* 



