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display the want of some amendment in the 

 management. Owners cannot be aware of the 

 circumstance ; if they were, it is but reasonable 

 to suppose they would lose no time in begin- 

 ing the work of reformation. It is the nature 

 of the generality of measures calculated to 

 improve, to be slow in their operations. It is 

 true, that trees now planted would be a consi- 

 derable period ere they would become profit- 

 able, but the owners would be benefited by 

 the sale of existing trees, which annually de- 

 crease in value from decay. The investing 

 of the interest of the capital raised by the sale 

 of the present crop, would increase in value at 

 a greater rate than the trees now standing, in 

 many places even after the charges for re- 

 planting the land are deducted — proof of 

 which can be given. 



The plantations that have been made during 

 the last century, afford but little prospect of 

 producing any thing like those immense trees 

 mentioned by different writers. Future inha- 

 bitants of this kingdom may want a vessel of 



