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one neighbour is expeded to turn informer 

 ag^inft another — And as feveral men of 

 good fortunes have joined their hands in the 

 flaughter of very good woodlands (I cannot 

 fay for altogether miftaken reafons) their e- 

 guals, for no rev^ard, v^ill not, and their 

 inferiors dare not take the law^ as it is called, 

 againft them — • 



As that is in good part the prefent, and 

 will alfo moft probably be the future cafe 

 on any legal compulfion to a greater prefer- 

 vation of this plant, and as few parliamen- 

 tary laws have premiums annexed to the ob- 

 fervers of them : Application can only be 

 made, or will beft be made to fome happier 

 expedient, that will yield a more effed:ual 

 fandion to fuch a reftraint, than what a fcep- 

 ter by way of punifhment can give. 



And what can that better be, to come at 

 leaf!; from a private hand, than by making 

 the fame evidently by other means, the in- 

 ter ejl of the wood proprietor himfelf ? — To 

 which end, what more likely expedient can 

 any way be found, than one, which by con- 

 tributing to make the altitudinal proportion 

 gf Oaks^ with their proper appurtenances, a 



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