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his pofterity, than the fcuts of fo many 

 hares, or the fkins of fo many foxes. 



I PRESUME therefore I have, on all ac- 

 counts, a juft occafion to renew the advice to 

 the gentlemen in particular laft fpoken of, 

 given to the like, by Pet, Bellonius^ in his 

 NegleBd Jlirpium culturd : 



" Agite, O Adolefcentes, et antequam Ca^ 

 " nities vobis obrepat ; Stirpes jam alueritis, 

 quae vobis, cum infigni utilitate, deledtati^f 

 onem etiam adferent/' 



I HOPE it is from the influence alfo, the 

 aforefaid confiderations offer'd by me have 

 upon fuch a Reader j that he thinks me 

 too long before I proceed on the praftical 

 parts. 



But if any Gentleman's paffion has been 

 cooled this way, becaufe as it muft be own- 

 ed, that Oak timber does not yet bear a 

 Price proportioned to the real fcarcity of 

 it — his affedlions thereto may reafonably 

 be doubled, if he is the happy man I wifh 

 him; upon the reflecflion, that when fuch 

 Proprietors have fold off their Stock, who 



have 



