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PART IV. 



NOTICES OF AUTHORS RELATIVE TO 

 TIMBER. 



After throwing together several of our own ob- 

 servations^ we bethought ourselves of exaniinhig into 

 the ideas and experience of recent wiitei's on the 

 same subject. Having taken notes of the more pro- 

 minent matter contained in their pages, we believe 

 we shall do the pubHc a service by printing these 

 notes^ accompanied by slight remarks. This may 

 be the more useful, especially as almost every author 

 has his own. particular mania, which few common 

 readers have sufficient knowledge of the subject to 

 discriminate jfrom the saner matter: and as, from 

 the nature of hobbies — from some shrewd enough 

 guesses by the ovmer that they are his own un- 

 doubted property — and, perhaps, from some mis- 

 givings, that what he advances on these is not per- 

 fectly self-evident, he is thence the more disposed 

 to expatiate upon them, and embellish. The credu- 



