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DISCOURSE

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Forest-Trees,

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The Propagation of Timber in His^ Majesty’s Dominions,

. Tuque ades, inceptumque una decurre labor em,

_ O decas, 6 famæ merit o pars maxima no fir a, c

CAROLINE, pelagoque volans da vela petenti : • ■ ;

• c Da sac Hem cursum, at que audacibus annue cœpttsj. -

dgnarofque •via me cum miseratus agrefies ;j .

; ~o« **igredere,\ V votis jam nunc ajfuefice vocari, ....

: The Int r*o d u c t i o n* - ±

INCE there is nothing which seems more fatally Int rod.to threaten a Weakning y if not a Diffelution of the^v~\jStrength of this famous and flourishing Elation,than the sensible and notorious Decay of her IVoodenfValls, when either through Time, Negligence , orother Accident, the present Navy shall, be worn out-X I ... and impaisdj it has been ^.ycij-worthy and fea-senabl e Advertisement in the Honourable the principal Officers andCommissioners, what they haye lately suggested to this Illustrious So -ciety^ For the tirticty Pievention and Redress of this intolerable Defect:.

For* it has not been the late Increase of Shipping fiionz, the Multiplica-tion of (jlafs-Works, Iron^-Furnkces , and the like, from whence thisimpolitick Diminutioh' of our Timber has proceeded - but from the dis-proportionate spreading of TUldge , Caused through that prodigious Ha-Vock made by such as lately professing themselves against Root andBranch (either to be fe-imburs'A their Holy Purchases, or for somefordid Respect) were tempted, not only to fell and cut down,

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