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Under the defcriptioa of Fyfields Oak> I h^ve 

 endeavoured to prove, that this timber, though not 

 fo quick of growth at firfl; as the fofter woods, 

 will pay ample intereft to fuch proprietors as give 

 it time to come to maturity. For oaks in the end 

 will exceed in rhagnitude fuch trees as outgrew 

 them in their infancy ; the period of the growth of 

 the latter being over^ before the oak begins to 

 extend its timber through its limbs, it is then that 

 it increafes rapidly j it is then that it pays for Hand- 

 ing i it is then that it makes amends for flow ad« 

 vances in the early ftages of its progrefs; producing 

 more timber in the laft twenty years, than it did in 

 the whole firft century ; and (quite the reverfe of 

 elm) the larger and more crooked the limbs are, 

 (however fhort the bole) the mor€ valuable is the 

 timber. 



*Tall ftraigbt oaks, when of full fize, are beautiful 

 objefts, whether fingle or in woods. They are re- 

 quifite for beams, for kelfons, ftern-pofls and plank- 

 ftocks ; and great is the confumption of the latter . 

 for fhips are planked both within and without with 

 oak, fave beneath the light water-line, where beech 

 performs that office. The growth of oaks like thefe 

 is the chief aim of the generality of planters i and 

 feems to have been the immediate defign of the 

 E a furveyors 



