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part of the nurfes, however, may be Scots Firs 

 and Pinafters ; the whole fhould be planted very 

 thick, and treated as noticed above for bleak 

 fituations. The principals are fuppofed to be 

 Oak, Elm, Beech, and others, planted in mattes. 



It is very obvious, that it wo ... be improper to 

 plant, in fuch fituations as above alluded to, a fmall 

 corner, or a narrow ftripe. The plants in fuch a 

 cafe would probably never rife to timber. Plan- 

 tations, therefore, near to the fea, whether on 

 flat or elevated ground, mould be very confider- 

 ably extended : they mould confift of many a- 

 cres ; and if of hundreds of acres, fo much the 

 better. 



On the banks of a circular bay, including 

 feveral fmall promontories or peninfulas, the land 

 at the fame time being fomewhat bold, and the 

 foil of a quality not to be called bad, a plantation 

 may be reared with more fuccefs, than where the 

 coaft is flraight or flat. Many fuch bays are to be 

 found on the coafts of the Scots Highlands, and 

 of their lochs or larger inlets of the fea, where 

 the value of the property might be much en- 

 hanced by being planted. 



II. 



mended, will keep erect, in the severest gales. If larches 

 are attempted to be planted in such situations, they should 

 lie in large masses. 



