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gether. In a little time, as we observed above, 

 it will recover its beauty. 



Nearly related to tbe copse, tliougli more tlie 

 genuine offspring of Nature, is the thiclcet. The 

 thicket is an intermixture of underwood, chiefly 

 of the thorny kind, wholly unprotected, and yet so 

 close as to exclude all entrance. Of this species, 

 however, we need say the less, as it is rarely 

 found of any extension in an English forest. In 

 small patches it is frequent. We often see a few 

 thorns entangled and knit close together, standing 

 out on the forest lawn, forming some pleasing, 

 irregular shape, and frequently adorned with an 

 Oak or two, which, from some casual acorn having 

 struggled, by the force of vegetation, through the 

 interstices of the thickets, gives dignity to what 

 before was only a bush. Of these trees such 

 thickets are often the satellites. 



