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this old world, whose sm-face is disfigui-ed all OTer 

 by man's patched drilled deformities, and pass on to 

 a new one, where inviolated nature has produced 

 and reared her own children after her own fashion, 

 w^here every plant occupies its own place and blos- 

 soms in its own time. This order must afford in- 

 tense delight to the natm'alist, independent of the 

 novelty of every thing, from the constellation in the 

 sky to the lichen on the stone. In such a place, 

 one should feel remorse to suffer the hatchet to work, 

 or the ploughshare to enter in. 



We fear these amusements (to which indeed, the 

 British seem more disposed than any other people), 

 w^ould spoil all relish for the Allanton system, and 

 that om* travellers, on their return, would suffer the 

 thriving trees planted by their fathers to remain at 

 rest, and rather incline to introduce into the park 

 some of their hardy foreign favourites — the iron-wood 

 evergreens of Patagonia, the valuable pines and other 

 trees of New^ Zealand and Eastern Asia. We be- 

 lieve, also, that an acquaintance with the real world, 

 obtained in this way, would be much better fitted, 

 than the following Sir Walter's recommendation, to 

 render om* gentlemen in after life able and ready to 

 direct at the nation's councils, and to improve their 

 estates, and the condition of their dependents. Per-. 



