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was a great quantity of wood between the* 

 house and the sea, and that the vessels ap- 

 peared, as at that wonderful place, Mount 

 Edgecumbe, sailing over the tops, and 

 gliding among the stems of the trees; if 

 so, this professor 



** Has left sad marks of his destructive sway." 



The method of thinning trees which has 

 been adopted by layers out of ground, 

 perfectly corresponds with their method of 

 planting ; for in both cases they totally 

 neglect, what in the general sense of the 

 word may be called picturesque effects. 

 Trees of remarkable size, indeed, usually 

 escape ; but it is not sufficient to attend 

 to the giant sons of the forest : often the 

 loss of a few trees, nay of a single tree of 

 middling size, is of infinite consequence to 

 the general effect of the place, by making 

 an irreparable breach in the outline of a 

 principal wood j often some of the most 

 beautiful groups, owe the playful variety of 

 their form, and their happy connection 



