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cost is already great, that - this will increase as the trees grow, and that as the
inhabitants
of the Villages apparently combine to shield the actual offenders, it would be impracticable to obtain the necessary protection from forest-quards, without a very
· large force employed for this purpose alone, the cost of - which, apart from other objections, would be altogether disproportionate to their object. por
3.
3.
Under these circumstances
the only alternatives apparently
open
to us were
by
a measure
this kind to render legally
responsible for the destruction
which is
as
going on,
those who
of
being privy to it, are already morally responsible, or to submit to the loss of all the expense which has been incurred, and to the waste of all the care which has been bestowed
on
the afforestation
Colony.
tation of the
4.