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TNTKODUCTOKY REMARKS. 



tear and wear, fresh supplies of it are often required. 

 Such, not to mention agricultural implements, are 

 divisions between stalls for cattle, temporary inclo- 

 sures, folds for sheep, foundations for corn-stacks, 

 and those contrivances for rendering them hollow, 

 which are of so great utility in wet or in hot har- 

 vests. These things may appear frivolous to some 

 readers, but farmers, who must carry materials for 

 such purposes ten or fifteen miles, as in many places 

 they are at present under the necessity of doing, 

 would think it no trivial convenience to have them 

 in their immediate neighbourhood. 



In those districts of the country which are remote 

 from sea-ports, and where the peat-mosseS are in an 

 exhausted state, the cultivation of wood is of the 

 greatest utility as a means of supplying the inhabi- 

 tants with fuel. A scarcity of this indispensable 

 article, is one of the severest privations that can be 

 felt, and to render it cheap and plentiful, where it 

 was formerly dear, is one of the greatest of improve- 

 ments. 



The planting and cultivation of wood tends, in a 

 high degree, to beautify the country, and improve 

 natural scenery. Persons of taste, and those who 

 can see utility in every thing that is productive of 

 mental pleasure, will deem this no contemptible ad-- 



