F OREST-TREES. 



and poor, rocky, fteril foils, with their roots running alrove the 

 furface ; but thefe foils and fituations muft have fome happy- 

 animating qualities belonging to them, unfelt in our northern 

 regions, where we muft make them much more familiar to us 

 than they yet are, before we pretend to accommodate them with 

 fuch lodgings ; and therefore, to have them grow freely, and to 

 any confiderable magnitude, we muft give them a good folid ge- 

 nerous foil, and a fituation defended, either by nature or art, 

 from the cold eafterly and northerly winds. 



Th e ufes of cork, which is the bark of the tree, need no ex-> 

 planation. That of its body is hard, lafting, and beautiful^, 

 and, like the Ilex, makes excellent charcoal. 



