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confiderable fize ; but is always cut down for 

 fuel, flakes, poles, the bark, &c. When the tim- 

 ber-growing kinds are allowed to remain un- 

 touched, and are trained up to trees, it is ihen 

 changed into a wood. The fituation of a natural 

 copfe, of courfe, is generally fuch as that of a 

 wood, of which, in truth, it is the prototype, 

 and would, if left to nature, foon become one ; 

 but it is kept in a flate of copfe by man, often 

 from his neceffities, and fometimes from his choice* 



Copfes are often planted, or, more properly, 

 fown, with the intention of keeping them merely 

 as fuch, and to anfwer various ufeful purpofes ; 

 as the produ&ion of flakes, rails, poles, hoops, 

 charcoal, fuel, or bark. They are alfo frequently 

 reared in parks and grounds as objects of orna- 

 ment, or as covers for game. Hence, artificial 

 copfes are frequently to be found in very favour- 

 able fituations and foils ; and in fueh their pro- 

 duds are exceeding profitable. 



The extent of a copfe, like a wood, may be 

 any thing from half an acre and upwards ; but 

 there is no fpecies of plantation fo well adapted 

 to fill up, or occupy fmall corners, or broken fpots 

 in arable fields, occafioned by the operations of 

 mining or quarrying, or to cover the broken 

 rugged banks of a flream or river. In parks, 

 they appear to great advantage, when judicioufly 

 placed, and contrafled with woods and groves. 



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