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vantage, as Mr. Fletcher in his letter on this 

 fubjecl, printed in your firft volume, has juftly 

 remarked. Am for poles or copfing will thrive 

 here beyond expectation ; and alders, with feveral 

 fpecics of the fallow tribe, will grow rapidly, and 

 in twenty years after planting pay a profit of three 

 pounds per acre per annum, for the whole time. 

 The expence attending it is confined almoft wholly 

 to the firft five or fix years; for after that time 

 little more is required than to keep up the fences, 

 and the profit is certain. 



The third foil on which planting anfwers better 

 than any thing elfe, is barren rocky hills, which 

 cannot be ploughed on account of the (tones lying 

 level with the furface, or growing above it. In 

 fuch places there are numerous little clefts or 

 fiflures in the rocks, filled with veins of earth to 

 a conliderable depth, which the roots of trees will 

 follow and find fufficient nourifhment in. Many 

 inftances of this nny be found in che counties of 

 Somerfet, Glocefter, and Dorfct, where the uif- 

 dom of our forefathers induced thcrr. to try the 

 experiment. On the north Hope of Mendip hills 

 in particular, (a fituation as u.iavouraDle as inoft, 

 ccount of its being a bed c rocks expofed to 

 the bleak north and eaft winds) we fee beautiful 

 woods of large? extent hanging over the parifhes 



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