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again in more modern times. Count Maurice^ 

 of Nassau^ instead of walking into a wood, 

 made a wood walk into his garden, in 1636. 

 This was in Brazil, where he was then gover- 

 nor. The place being naturally as destitute 

 of trees and shrubs, at least near his palace, as 

 was the roof of that building, he boldly trans- 

 planted seven hundred cocoa-nut trees, some 

 of them fifty feet high ; and of course, having 

 done this, he found no difficulty in adding as 

 large a number of lesser fruit trees and shrubs, 

 as he pleased. The trees were seventy or 

 eighty years old, and had to be carried four 

 miles by land and water ; but skill and perse- 

 verance overcome every obstacle. But I shall 

 be happy now, if Mr. Burton will proceed." 



I remarked, in addition, that the most noted 

 of these transplanters was Louis XIV. who 

 removed an entire forest, the Bois de Bou- 

 logne, from Versailles to its present site, a dis- 



