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lation, I cannot guefs, but think the profit is charged 

 much too high. 



Oak timber, let up in the manner above defcribed, 

 would arrive to great lengths; and having never 

 been pruned or tranfplanted, there could be no 

 danger of their falling unfound 5 confequently the 

 charge I have made of <1. a tree for their value on 

 an average, will, I fuppofe, be thought very rea- 

 fonable, efpecially as the bark and wood are both 

 included. 



The quotation from Mr. Evelyn, with refpect 

 to the foreft of Dean, is mod undoubtedly appli- 

 cable to many others of the wafte lands belonging 

 to the crown, and in particular to the New-Foreft 

 in Hampfhire, which would produce an immenfe 

 quantity of fine timber without any expence, if a 

 method could be devifed to prevent the deer and 

 other cattle from cropping the young trees in their 

 infancy: the truth of this appears from anobferva- 

 tion I made fome years ago, that there was fcarce a 

 young oak to be feen but what had found its way 

 up through a thick bufh of thorns or brambles, and 

 confequently owed its prefervation thereto: from 

 this obfervation alfo, I am of opinion, that there 

 can be no ncceflity for any confiderable expence in 

 weeding a young plantation of oak. 



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