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GROWING GOLD. 



CHAPTER III. 



It is a remarkable circumstance, that they 

 who have written upon the cultivation and 

 management of timber, and they who are 

 intrusted with the care of it, should have 

 omitted to make themselves acquainted with 

 the manner in which it grew spontaneously in 

 the ancient woods and forests, and should 

 have adopted, without any inquiry, an arti- 

 ficial system, at variance with every principle 

 of nature. 



The commissioners of the office of woods 

 and forests, their inspectors and surveyors, 



