GROWING GOLD. 



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nearest of any to London) and plentifully fur- 

 nished both for profit and pleasure, (with grief 

 and reluctancy I speak it) my own grandfather 

 had standing at Wotton, and about the estate, 

 timber, that now were worth one hundred 

 thousand pounds, since of what was left by my 

 father (who was a great preserver of wood), 

 there has been thirty thousand pounds worth 

 of timber fallen by the axe and the fury of the 

 late hurricane and storm : now no more Wotton, 

 stript and naked, and ashamed almost to own 

 its name," — Sylva B. 3. C, 7. 



This is a clear recognition of the two great 

 points which I now attempt to establish ; 

 namely, the great importance of the subject, 

 and the great injury to the timber by strong 

 winds. 



Mr. Jesse, a gentleman who holds the office 

 of inspector of parks and palaces to the de- 

 partment of woods and forests, has published 

 a work which he calls " Gleanings in Natural 

 History," wherein he states the circumference 



