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to meliorate, my plantaiion fucceeded well ; for 

 though the foil is fcarcely^ fix inches deep^, the firs, 

 fct in 1766, are now thirty ^eet high, and from twor 

 feet fix inches to two feet in circumference, at four 

 feet from the ground -, fome few planted at. the fame 

 time, in a deeper foil, and warmer fituation, are 

 now above three feet round. 



Spruce firs planted in 1766, likewife in a toler- 

 able good foil, are now forty feet high, and fi-om 

 two feet ten inches and a half to three feet round. 



I have feen plantations which far furpafs either 

 of thefe in growth, but they occupied ground infi- 

 nitely more valuable. 



Yours, &CC, 



T. SOUTH. 



Letter IV. 



Defcription of Fyfields Oak, now ftanding in a Wood 

 near Romfey in the County of Southampton. 



Sir, 



THIS tree, in 1788, was ten feet eleven incheij 

 and is now nearly eleven feet one inch in cir- 

 cumference, at fix feet from the ground. 



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