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one, as lie has planted all kinds of trees 

 around, to draw them up. But this is not all, 

 for the old oak trees, growing on all sides of 

 his plantations, prove that they grew un- 

 mixed with other trees. 



The great advantage of having the best 

 systems adopted by the office of woods and 

 forests, would be, an immense revenue from 

 the worst soils, and it would show to others 

 what may be done most profitably, so that 

 noblemen and landowners might have, by a 

 reference to this department, the best and 

 most correct advice ; this would ensure a crop 

 of good timber throughout the empire. 



The honorable gentleman did not antici- 

 pate that his statements would ever be con- 

 sidered of the importance which is now 

 attached to them, nor conceive they would be 

 applied as weapons against himself, to prove 

 his want of official ability. From the promi- 

 nent post he occupies, the public have a 



right to expect that the plantations under 

 I 



