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motives ; therefore not worth much, if any 

 attention, except, indeed, as a proof that oak 

 will grow on poor sandy soils. If there had 

 been any justice in the opinion, that oak 

 grown on light sands is of superior quality, 

 it no doubt would have obtained a better 

 price in the market. The soil of this estate 

 is an adhesive clay, as is also that of many 

 hundred acres of wood land in the neighbour- 

 hood, on which oak timber of the best quality 

 has been cut. 



Estate, No, 24, Plantation. 



This is a plantation of considerable extent, 

 and it furnishes a large mass of evidence, to 

 strengthen, if necessary, that already given. 

 There were several kinds of trees originally 

 set, but the pines have as usual overgrown 

 the native trees, with the exception of a few 

 instances. 



Inches in 

 circumference. 



No. 1.— Oak, 29 



North, Spruce, 9 feet from oak, 32 



