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LETTERS ON TREES. 



he is yet regarded as forming a scion or branch of one 

 common stock, which may have had its origin in a 

 remote age. and may endure as long as the world 

 itself. 



17. I dare say you have not been able fully to com- 

 prehend or to take in, in all its parts, what I have now 

 propounded to you. I shall be content, however, if 

 you have acquired a general idea of it. In future 

 letters I will go into it more in detail, and endeavour 

 to make it good. — I am, &c. 



