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FOREIGN TIMBER-TREES. 



Various circumstances prevented our as- 

 sembling, as had been proposed; and it was 

 more than two months before I found myself 

 again in the company of the very intelligent 

 individuals, to whom I had been so fortunately 

 introduced. 



Some time was occupied, when we did meet, 

 in conversing with our young friends, on the 

 topics formerly explained to them. We wished 

 to ascertain how far the knowledge imparted 

 to them had served the proper purpose of 

 abiding information; and, therefore, we in 

 turn put many questions : and, I am happy to 

 say, they were generally answered with readi- 

 ness and accuracy. 



