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njiz, the variety of their own conftitutions, 

 as to good, or bad, originally. 



And now I think I have pretty near, if 

 not wholly done with philofophifing ; to 

 proceed upon a certainty, in behalf of the 

 idea proposed at firft, but which I muft al- 

 fo call a fingularifyy as not having been 

 animadverted on either pro, or con, by any 

 former writers in their way of planting 

 woods. 



The cafe is, I would recommend that 

 there be no undergrowth in fuch new plant- 

 ed woods but hajel. That Humble Low 

 growing plant — Fleet rooting — and not Ra- 

 venous of moifture — offering it's felf as the 

 moft eligible for fuch ends above any other. 

 For at no age is it fo afpiring, as to obftrud: 

 the godlike influence of the fun — driving 

 rains — and fufficient air — from cherifhing 

 it*s natural fuperiors ; like to Afh — Sallow 

 —Birch— 



It likewife rivals even afli for the ufe of 

 the cooper, as fylva ccedua ; and altho' the 

 growth thereof in bulk, is not fo large as 

 any of the other forts^ for firewood-, it makes 



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