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In North America this tree is much valued; in 

 proof of which the memoriahst tells a story of a 

 farmer in Long Island, who planted an ordinary 

 field of fourteen acres with suckers of this plant, 

 in the year of his marriage, as a portion for his 

 children. His eldest son married at twenty-two. 

 On this occasion the farmer cut about three 

 hundred pounds' worth of timber out of his Acacia 

 wood, which he gave his son to buy a settlement 

 in Lancaster county. Three years after, he did 

 as much for a daughter. And thus he provided 

 for his whole family ; the wood, in the mean time, 

 repaiinng by suckers all the losses it received. 



I shall conclude my account of deciduous trees 

 with the Larch, which is a kind of connecting 

 species between them and the race of evergreens. 

 Though it sheds its leaf with the former, it bears 

 a cone, is resinous, and ramifies like the latter. 

 It claims the Alps and Apennines for its native 

 country, where it thrives in higher regions of the 

 air than any tree of its consequence is known to 

 do; hanging over rocks and precipices which 

 have never been visited by human feet. Often it 

 is felled by the Alpine peasant, and thrown 



