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Strutt^s Sylva Britdnnica, 



We wish we could add, that in modern times such memo- 

 rials of days gone by always received that respect and foster- 

 ing care, at the hands of their owners, which their age alone 

 might reasonably demand. The contrary, however, is too 

 often the case. An enclosure of waste lands is on the point 

 of taking place in a certain district, or, perhaps, it is merely 



talked of, and in agitation : previously to the passing of the 

 bill in parliament, and to the partition of the lands among the 

 freeholders, the lord of the manor, sensibly alive to his own 

 interest, and extremely jealous of his rights, or his still more 

 grasping steward, seizes, with the rapacity of a harpy, iipon 

 every the minutest item of property to which he can possibly 



