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redemption of the owners and would-be destroyers. 

 Happily, it is not difficult to discern that a better spirit 

 is getting abroad, and we hope that before very long the 

 desire for tree planting and preservation may every-' 

 where overcome the mania for cutting thom down. — Ed. 



Some of the noblest Oaks in England were at 

 least formerly found in Sussex. They required 

 sometimes a score of oxen to draw them, and 

 were carried in a sort of wain, which in that deep 

 counti'y is expressively called a tug. Two or 

 three years was not an uncommon space of time 

 for a tree to spend in performing its journey to 

 Chatham. One tug carried the load but a little 

 way, and left it for another tug to take up. If 

 the rains set in, it stirred no more that year; and, 

 sometimes, no part of the next summer was dry 

 enough for the tug to proceed. So that the 

 timber was generally pretty well seasoned before 

 it arrived at the king's yard. I suppose the same 

 mode of carriage still continues.* 



* To the lover of landscape it is almost a matter of regret that 

 the circumstances of the time are now so vastly altered as, by 

 the greatly increased facilities of land carriage, to make it so 

 much more easy than it used to be to compass the destruction 

 and removal of trees. — Ed. 



