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in being ; at leaft had been a . neceflary ad- 

 jund: to it. But altho' he has not left us 

 that come after him, hopelefs from the gift 

 of providence of feeing fome parallels of the 

 like again ^ yet if we employ our reafon to 

 come at what he thought would be a pro- 

 bable means of our like happy enjoyment 

 after him, from the imaginary artful aid he 

 gave to his young Qaks, we fhall look thro' 

 a falfe medium : For he unhappily pradlifed 

 not any thing of that kind, but what would 

 miflead us— indeed mifchief us— how hap- 

 py foever he was in all his other underta- 

 kings. 



But however incompleat his fcheme of 

 that kind was, Hill, to his credit, his aim 

 was wifely political and provident ; in par- 

 ticular as to his apprehenfion of the future 

 want there would be of fuch grand and af- 

 piring Oaks in time to come. And fo far 

 the event has fliewn the excellency of his 

 fbrelight and judgment : By the prefent rife 

 in value of fuch timbers, at Woolwich, Cha- 

 tham, and other royal timber yards — By the 

 timber merchants feeking and hunting after 

 the like in inland counties — And alfo by the 

 government and merchants being driven to 



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