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friend advifcd him by all means to leave them 

 untouched. They are beautiful, faid he, in 

 themfelves ; and, you fee, they ikreen that 

 part of your houfe, which you would wifh 

 to have fkreened. The gentleman feemed 

 convinced, and the next time he met his 

 friend, I have taken your advice, faid he, 

 and have left the trees ftanding. And fo 

 indeed he had; but all the ftunted wood, 

 and under-growth, which he coniidered as 

 oifenfive rubbifh, he had rooted up ; over- 

 looking their ufe in compofition. The con- 

 fequence was, he laid all the offenlive part 

 of his houfe open; let in the light, and 

 intirely deftroyed the fcene. 



In the iirfl book I mentioned the different 

 effedls of foil, and climate on trees*. In 

 New-foreft thefe obfervations are well illuf- 

 trated. The oaks there feem to have a cha- 

 racter peculiar to themfelves. They are the 

 moft pidlurefque trees of the kind, we meet 

 with. They feldom rife into lofty items, as 

 oaks ufually do in richer foils : but their 



* See vol, 1. page 25. 



branches. 



