ELM. 



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attachment occurs only where there is individuality 

 of character to give distinctness of image. 



*' Oh ! how should I my true love know, 

 From other one ?" 



There is design and utility in this fascination 

 of peculiarity. If individual distinction be but 

 strongly marked, it signifies little of what character. 

 Love of countiy often hangs upon featiues of the 

 harshest and most fearful description, with which the 

 associations and feelings become entwisted, as attach- 

 ment to individual is often rivetted by fierce, austere, 

 or even morose qualities. 



The narrow- leaved elm is valuable for forming the 

 blocks and dead-eyes *, and other wooden furnitm'e 

 of rigging, being particularly suitable for these pur- 

 poses, from its hard and adhesive nature, and indis- 

 position to crack or spht, when exposed to sun and 

 weather. 



We have observed many minor distinctions, per- 

 haps individual, in the above kinds of elm, in figure, 

 size and smoothness of leaf, in colour and roughness 



* Some nautical or technical terms have unavoidably crept into 

 this work ; we shall not presume to think any explanation neces- 

 sary : Britannia would blush jusquau blanc des yeux, to the tips 

 of the fingers and toes, did she think it were doubted that any 

 of her sons, not doomed to unceasing mechanical labour, were 

 unacquainted with these. 



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