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furveyors of Dean Foreft. Should their plan he 

 adopted,* the trees will draw one another up fo 

 fad, that fcarce a crooked one will be found in i8 

 thoufand acres, fave round the out-lkirts ; and the 

 foil will be full of ftubs, which, as oak robs oak, 

 muft check the growth of the furviving timber. 



Planters of all kinds (as before obferved) fliould 

 attend to the ufes to which their timber may be ap- 

 propriated. Inclofures made at Government's ex- 

 pence, therefore, fhould be nurferies for timber 

 adapted to government purpofes. The marine, be- 

 ing the firft and principal obje6l, fhould in the firfl: 

 place be provided for. Trees difperfed on open 

 commons and extenfive waftes, have hitherto pro- 

 duced the choiceft timber ; and though the returns 

 of the forefts have of. late years, through mif- 



* They propofe to tumTods upfide down, at three feet apart, to 

 plant one or two acorns in each fod with a dibber, taking out at the 

 end of ten years every other tree j at the end of fifteen years every 

 other tree again, to leave them at twelve feet apart ; ^" at twenty-fivc 

 years growth, to fell 132 trees on an acre j at thirtj'-five years 

 growth, to leave the trees at twenty feet apart} and at forty- five 

 years to leave 7 5 upon an acre, &c. &c. 



'^ This is evidently a miftake j for to fet them at twelve feet dif- 

 tance from each other, feven out of eight muft be cut down. The 

 whole indeed is incomprehenfible, for after fetting the trees at iz 

 feet apart, it would require a conjuror to fet them at 20 feet, 



management. 



