238 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



brated horse which Sinon prevailed on the 

 Trojans to admit into their city, and which 

 caused its overthrow. 



" The Grecian chiefs for many years in vain 

 Attacking Troy, yet being repulsed again, 

 At last a horse of mountain size contrived 

 By Pallas' art, that moved and seem'd alive ; 

 For ribs were massy planks of Firs inlaid, 

 And a report throughout their camp they spread 

 That for their safe return, a vow they'd made; 

 But in the hollow of the vast machine 

 They had convey'd choice troops of armed men." 



Lauderdale. 



The advantages that have arisen from the 

 forming large plantations of the Scotch fir in 

 the northern parts of Scotland, have not been 

 confined alone to the profit obtained upon 

 the timber, which has been such as fully to 

 satisfy the owners, but it has rendered some 

 of the barest moors, the bleakest and most 

 inhospitable situations, habitable, and thus as 

 it were, extended the bounds of these domi- 

 nions ; for with these plantations, dwellings 

 have sprung up, and land, which thirty years 

 ago was not considered worth twopence per 

 acre, now* in many instances, lets from ten 

 to thirty shillings per Scotch acre. 



In the neighbourhood of these large plant- 

 ations, houses can be reared at little ex- 

 pence, which induces settlers to make their 

 dwellings in these spots, where they can ob- 



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