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iituations, .with every appearance of being 

 a native." The Wild Cherry, too, is 

 found in Coppices : but Httle or no Hav^^- 

 thorn ; which does not appear to be 2. 

 native of the country! 



IV. The HISTORY of thefe Wood- 

 lands is unknown : tradition is jfilent on 

 the fabjed:. They are, undoubtedly, the 

 aboriginal produce of the foils ihey now 

 occupy. They have no appearance of 

 cultivation ; except near habitations : and 

 even, there, unlefs in a few inflances. 

 Planting does not appear to have been, at 

 any time, th£ prii<^tice or fafhion of the 

 jDiHrid, 



V. The ELIGIBILITY of the pre^ 

 fent Woodlands, in their prefent ftate, has 

 been mentioned : fome fmall portion of 

 ithejn ought, perhaps, to be converted to 

 Farm Lands ^ though, in the ordinary 

 anodes of conv^rfion, they mi^t not pay 

 fo he. akeratioin : and there are confide- 

 rable extenib of unproduxftive high lands, 

 which ought to be converted to Woodland- 



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