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A. The ufe of oak timber for building, &a & 

 certainly diminifhed for the following reafbn, to 

 wit, from the cheapnefs of fir-timber, and the great 

 eafe with which it is worked, and converted to ufe. 



^. 9. Whether the price of oak timber, for car- 

 penters or other ufes, is increafed within the laft 

 ' 40 years, and in what proportion ? 



A. The price of oak timber for carpenters and 

 country ufes, is very litde, if at all, increafed within 

 the laft 40 years, for the reafon mentioned in the 

 foregoing anfwer, 



^.10. Whether the improvements of roads, anci 

 the navigable canals, have not introduced the ufe 

 of coals in parts of the country, in which wood was 

 before generally ufed for fuel ? and whether in fuch 

 parts the demand for underwood, and the value of 

 it, have been increafed or leffened ? 



A, The ufe of coals is much more general than 

 formerly, partly perhaps owing to the improvement 

 of the roads, but more to the decreafe of pollard 

 trees and hedge-rows: the value of fire- wood is 

 fomewhat increafed. 



^.11. Whether in thofe parts of the country in 



which underwood is more valuable, in confequence 



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