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and to place these under the orders of superior officers 

 appointed to preside over more extensive districts. 



It was proposed likewise to plant rows of useful trees 

 by the roadside from one station to another throughout 

 the whole country, and it was calculated that after a cer- 

 tain number of years the produce of those trees would 

 have been nearly sufficient to defray all the expenses of 

 repairing the roads. 



Such an arrangement, with the striking appearance 

 of order and regularity that would accompany it, could 

 not have failed to interest every person of feeling who 

 saw it ; and I am persuaded that such a scheme might 

 be carried into execution with great advantage in most 

 countries where standing armies are kept up in time of 

 peace. The reasons why this plan was not executed in 

 Bavaria at the time it was proposed are too long, and 

 too foreign to my present purpose, to be here related. 

 Perhaps a time may come when they will cease to 

 exist. 



