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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.