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native flora and fauna by deep draining, removal of thickets, 
and cutting formal roads, might find much better scope for 
their energies and their funds in replanting those parts 
which had fallen into the hands of encroachers, and are 
now mere barren wastes. By so doing, and by simply 
letting the wooded parts alone, they will afford the greatest 
pleasure to the greatest number, The damage they have 
already committed is far from unimportant, and it is time 
that their injudicious hands were arrested. 
