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other parts of New Jerfey, to the town of 

 New York, from whence they are diftri- 

 buted throughout the province. A quantity 

 of white cedar wood is likewife exported 

 every year to the [Ve ft- Indies, for mingles, 

 pipe ftaves, 6>c. Thus the inhabitants are 

 very bufy here, not only to leffen the num- 

 ber of thefe trees, but even to extirpate 

 them entirely. They are here (and in 

 many other places) in regard to wood, bent 

 only upon their own prefent advantage, 

 utterly regardlefs of pofterity. By this 

 means many cedar fwamps are already quite 

 deftitute of cedars, having only young 

 moots left -, and I plainly obferved, by 

 counting the circles round the ftem, that 

 they do not grow up very quickly, but re- 

 quire a great deal of time before they can 

 be cut for timber. It is well known that a 

 tree gets only one circle every year \ a ftem, 

 eighteen inches in diameter, had one hun- 

 dred and eight circles round the thicker 

 end ; another, feventeen inches in diameter, 

 had a hundred and fixteen ; and another, 

 two feet in diameter, had one hundred and 

 forty-two circles upon it. Thus near 

 e ^gnty years growth is required, before a 

 white cedar railed from feed can be ufed for 

 timber. Among the advantages which the 

 white cedar mingles have over others, the 

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