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particular here, as it is the first plantation of the 

 kind on the estate that has come under my eye, and 

 should any more similar plantations occur, I will 

 only give reference to the system here laid down. 

 I may further observe, that the rearing up of young 

 plantations on a nobleman or gentleman^s property 

 is of far greater importance than many, even pro- 

 prietors themselves, are apt to imagine, and the si- 

 tuation of a forester on an estate such as this, is one 

 of the very first and greatest responsibility, and only 

 men of ability, of enterprise, and of genius, should 

 be entrusted with the management of planting and 

 rearing woods as foresters. If a forester has any re- 

 gard at all for his own character, he will duly consider 

 that he is not only working for his present proprietor, 

 and his posterity, but for his king and for his coun- 

 try, always remembering that the sea-girt islands of 

 Great Britain are deeply interested in the operation 

 of rearing plantations of timber trees for navy pur- 

 poses — what is the ofiice of a landed proprietor's 

 factor or agent, what is the office of a land steward, 

 what is the office of a gardener, what is the office 

 of any servant about a nobleman's estabhshment 

 when compared with his ? If I durst hazard the 

 remark, I would say the forester that has extensive 

 tracts of plantation to make and rear, and who does 

 it judiciously, it may be said of him in some future 

 day, laying his employer's interest aside for one 

 moment, that he has done more for the interest of 

 the nation in preparing materials for her wooden 

 walls, than the bee-headed statesman, who not only 

 keeps the national house to which he belongs in a 

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