Ferns after fire. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hedgero ws of 
     
     native p/ants. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Catt/e in the 
     
     woods and 
     
     swamps. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fire wood. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Much fern grows in parts where the fire has run; but this capital source of amending 
     
     the land is wholly neglected. [p. 196] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fences are made with poles, called longers, 14 to 15 feet long, . A few judicious 
     
     persons have commenced permanent fences by planting quicksets; other plants, the 
     
     spruce, fir &c. have been tried; the latter afford shelter as well as bounds. The 
     
     hawthorn grows very kindly and rapidly. Live fences might be made of beech, or 
     
     white maple; the latter is destroyed with difficulty. [p. 197] 
     
    
   
   
    
     as the country becomes settled, and the number of cattle encreases, the means of 
     
    
   
   
    
     their support in the woods and swamps diminishes. (pp. 205-207] 
     
     the Emigrant should be careful in selecting his land; and whether it has a 
     
     sufficiency of firewood. [p. 207] 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Colony produces timber for vessel building; here are an abundance of Shipwrights, 
     
     [p. 209] 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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