There is still a great deal to plant on the upper part of the hills of Cumberland and Westmoreland; and the excellent effect of what has been already done ought to encourage the proprietors to proceed with confidence. Difficulties, we understand, occur in many places, from the upper parts of the hills being common land belonging to the villages; and it appears to as that it would be a very desirable thing for the villagers, to exchange their right to the hill tops for an equivalent on the lower part of the hill sides. With a few exceptions, we cannot say much in favour of the management of plantations. The effects of the old evil of neglecting to thin are almost every where conspicuous. In some parts of the lake plantations, as, for instance, in Professor Wilson's, the trees are so thick as to be suffocating one another. The same may be said of many other plantations, the fear of cutting down trees being a positive disease with most country gentlemen; so much so, indeed, as to make it one of the first points of imitation in which retired tradesmen ape the aristocracy.
