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A, The timber in this county was always well 

 fituated for removal, and though the roads are much 

 better than formerly, yet the price of land carriage 

 is increafed from 3d. to 6d. per load, per mile, 

 within the lad 20 years, which may be accounted 

 for from the high price of horfes, the extra charge 

 of keeping them, and other fundry reafons. There 

 is no navigable canal in the county, nor have larger 

 fupplies of timber been fent to the dock-yards on 

 the above accounts. 



^. 7, Whether of late years greater quantities 

 of timber have not, in confequence of this increafed 

 facility of carriage, been felled in thofe parts of the 

 country which were before inacceflible, than they 

 will be able permanently to fupply ? 



A. There are few or no parts in this county 

 which are, or ever were inacceffible, nor any 

 greatly increafed facility of carriage ; therefore no 

 greater quantity of timber lias been felled on thofe 

 accounts. 



^. 8. Whether the general confumption of oak 

 timber for building, or other ufes, within the county^ 

 is increafed or diminillied ; and to what caufe ii> 

 your opinion is fuch increafc or decre^fc tq b^ iq^r 

 imputed? ■•;] 



A. The 



