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The fallen tree alfo, lying with it's white, 

 peeled branches on the ground, is not only 

 beautiful in itfelf ; but if it be not fcattered 

 in too great profufion (for white is an unac- 

 commodating hue) it forms an agreeable con- 

 trafl with the living trees. But when we fee 

 it deprived of it's beautiful ramification, fquared, 

 and fawn in lengths, as it fometimes continues 

 long to lie about the foreft, it becomes an 

 objed: of deformity ; and we lament what it 

 once was, without receiving any equivalent 

 from it's prefent Hate. 



It may here alfo be remarked, that the 

 king's timber is much more pidurefque, than 

 fuch timber, as is bought, and cut by the mer- 

 chant. He, with cautious, and difcerning eye, 

 flands at the bottom of the tree, while it is yet 

 alive : and having examined every twifling 

 limb, and deftined every part to it's proper 

 fervice, lops them off, one by one -, and then 

 fells the tree, a deformed and multilated trunk. 

 The royal wood-cutter is lefs nice. He fells 

 the tree as it grows -, and leaves the dock-men 

 to afcertain the ufes of it's feveral parts. Two 

 or three of the main limbs are generally reft, 

 and fplintered in the fall -, but that is not his 

 concern : in the mean time, the ruin of the 



whole. 



