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plantations at this place which exhibit the same general 

 health and progressiye vigour as the Removed Woods, 

 \Yhether it be in open groups or close plantations, as the 

 committee of the Highland Society has amply attested. 

 And should they continue by the one half only as rapidly 

 progressive for the time to come, the axe must interpose 

 in order to prevent them from obscuring the glades, or 

 blotting out the distances of the landscape. 



