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that furround them, which is what all manu- 

 facturers ought to be, inftead of fpreading over 

 the country, to the deftruction of agriculture. 

 Another circumftance in which Mr. French has 

 given a new face to Moniva, and its environs, 

 is by planting ; he found a confiderable wood 

 of birch, which being a fhabby tree, and not 

 improving, he cut them gradually down, and 

 planted oak, elm, and beach, with various other 

 forts; he began this thirty years ago, and no 

 year paries without his making fome new plan- 

 tation. By properly managing this wood of 

 1 1 1 acres, he has made it pay him 150I. a year, 

 ever fince, and there is now more than thrice 

 the value of timber in it, to what there was 

 when he began. Whatever he has planted has 

 anfwered well, but the growth of the beach is 

 the greateft. That of the oak is very great, 

 and more flouriihing than ever Mr. French 

 expected to fee them at the time of planning. 

 The broad-leaved elm thrives very well upon 

 the bogs, after they are cultivated. Mr. French 

 has tried mod forts of trees in rows along the 

 hedges, but none of them have fucceeded, the 

 weft winds cut them in pieces; fince which he 

 makes inclofures, and plants them thick. 



I ought npt to forget obferving that Mr. 

 French fupports a charter-fchool at his own 

 expenfe, wherein are from twenty to forty 

 children, conftantly fupported, cloathed, and 

 taught to read and write, and to fpin and 

 weave, 



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