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the base, with long sprayey materials, so as to reach across, or between the stubs, and hang over the ditch(in this case mostly shallow) yet thin, or Open enough, to suffer the shoots to rise freely through them, would seem to be the proper outline of pFactice.

This practice, I recollect, struck me, on my first observing it, as being most absurd, and ridiculous: yet, on due examination, it is found to be one of those simple expedi- ents, which necessity, in the infancy of arts, and long experience, in their riper years, have happily struck out.

WOODLANDS.

THE SPECIES of woodland, which pre- vails on these hills, is COPPICE, OF UNDER-= Woop, generally having a few oaK TIMBER TREES Scattered among it; agreeably to the practice of the southern and western coun- ties; and, more or less, of the midland pro- vinces; constituting what is emphatically

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called a wood, in distinction to grove, and coppice. And, beside extensive woods of the above description, the hills of Surrey, more par- VOL. II. Dd