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America, to this day, affords numberless 

 proofs in support of the views here taken. A 

 gentleman who has travelled extensively in 

 the United States, and hunted for seven 

 months in the Michigan Territory and State 

 of Ohio, about one hundred and twenty miles 

 southward of Lake Erie, on the banks of the 

 Maumee River, has favored me with his 

 opinion as to the distance the trees stand 

 from each other in the back woods. ''The 

 stems of some nearly touch each other, while 

 others vary in distance from five to six yards." 

 This has been confirmed by a Michigan 

 farmer ; he states, that " where the trees are 

 finest and tallest, he cannot drive a cart 

 between them." These woods consist of trees 

 of all ages ; some in the last stage of decay, 

 and others, in the immediate neighbourhood, 

 just springing from the seed; so that the 

 young are sheltered by the old. 



This is the nature of trees — alike in the 

 Old as in the New World. In corroboration 

 of the statements just quoted, it may be 



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