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deriy or the Orchat^ or the Wood^ contain fo 

 many, and fo confiderable improvements, 

 that he has left us little other employment, 

 than to corred: a few of his overfights. But 

 when 'Wife men err, they commonly greatly 

 err. The error of his falPn to my fhare to 

 challenge, from the unaccountable filence 

 thereon, of all fylvatick writers fince his 

 time, I muft call a dormant, or latent one : 

 Yet the bare finding fault, without offering 

 ways and means of its reformation, would 

 never alone have become an agreeable pro- 

 vince to me againft him. Thus, the firfl 

 method he took was, to equip his arborator 

 (as he not improperly calls him) with a 

 hook — handbill — hatchet — -fa^w — broad chif- 

 fel and mallet^ to deftroy thereby, the firfl: 

 tier of boughs of any young Oak, in order 

 to encreafe its future beautiful altitude. 



And there is good reafon to think, this 

 was not his praftice fingly, in the period 

 of time he lived in, and perhaps long be- 

 fore; it being plain by his writings, that 

 he imbibed his. notions of the efficacy of 

 thofe inftruments to the purpofes piention- 

 ed, from one Mr. Lawfan^ a preceding and 

 with him, favourite fylvan Author. This 



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