SYLVA: 



DISCOURSE 



O F 



Foreft-Trees, 



AND 



The Propagation of Timber in His MAJESTIES 



Dominions, c^c. 



Tuque ades^ incepiumque una decurre laborettt., 

 decits^ b fam<£ merito pars maxima nojir^e 

 C AKOLI D E^ pelagoq'^ <volans da 'velapetenti : 

 Dafacilem curfnm^ at que audacibHS annuc coeptis : 

 Ig navofque 'V ict mecum miferatm a^rejies' 

 Ingredere^ ^ 'votis jam nunc ajfuefce 'vocari. 



The Introduction. 



Ince there is nothing which feems more fatally j^roJH&ion, 

 to threaten a WeaEning, if not a Diflblution 

 of the ftrength of this famous and flourilhing 

 Nation^ then the fenfible and notorious de- 

 cay of her fVooden-Tvalls, when either through 

 timCy negligence, or other accident, t\\c prefent 

 N^z^ftiall be worn out and impair'd ^ it has 

 been a very worthy and fcafonable Advertifement in the Honour- 

 able the principal officers and Commijjioners, what they have late- 

 ly fuggefted to this Illujiriottf Society, for the timely prevention 

 and redrefs of this intollcrablc defedt. For it has not been the late 

 increafe ofshipping alone, the multiplication of Glaf?-vpork.fi Iron- 

 Furnaces, and the like, from whence this im-politick diminution 

 of our Timber has proceeded j but from the difproportionatc 



B fpreading 



