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1766.
you see in the Country; want of Wood is its great Fault: the various Risings & fallings of the Hills, afford a thousand Vales & Banks, which would be very pleasing, were they not so totally destitute of it.
Population in this part of the Country is very thick: I have been told that half the inhabitants of Portugall [Portugal], live within ten miles compass round the City of Lisbon: that calculation probably is infinitely too great, but the Country every where else, is certainly very thinly inhabited.
The Portuguese have no Idea of improving Ground, tho' they have a Climate in which Wood grows wonderfully fast:
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