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 a real wood, is just like ours, the trees & most of the common
 herbaceous plants belonging to genera & often to species which
 are common in the Northern States, though we possess a much
 greater variety. They have as you know, Oak Elm Beech Maple
 Linden Plane & here and [added with caret: there] a Chestnut [added with caret: & Junglans]. I believe just one species each, whiles we
 have [crossed out: upon a] not less than thirty species of these genera, besides
 others not known in [their?] forests.  You meet everywhere in the 
 Island with great plantations of young trees, composed of different
 species of Pines, though more of [their?] genus is indigenous to
 Great Britain. About their houses and grounds which are laid out
 with great taste, you see in abundance [crossed out: [unreadable] one (I believe)
 species of [crossed out: Balm of Gilead] Silver Firs planted for ornament. The favorite
 tree however, as being the most profitable is, the Larch, brought
 to Scotland, where the Duke of Athol now has the two first trees
 that were raised from seed, from Switzerland. They are
 now planting all their heaths & mountains with this tree which
 thrives in the most dry & barren soils, and the number which I
 have been told was growing on a single estate would seem [??]
 if I did see with what extreme facility it is propagated.


 For the botanist however there are no Peaks of [Otter?] or Cedar
 I [??]. You have heard of my excursion to the top of Snowdon.
 This is a fair specimen of the English Mountain. Covered with
 a mossy herbage just sufficient to make it green & afford a
 [scar--ty?] pasture to a few stunted sheep, there are scarcely five
 phanogamous species within five square miles.

        