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of a demand for hop-poles, or from other cau fes, it 

 has become the pradice for many years more than 

 formerly, to cut down the great timber -trees on ac- 

 count of the injury they do to the underwood ? 



A, There are few or no hops grown in this 

 county; and the great timber-trees are not more 

 cut down for the benefit of the underwood than 

 heretofore. 



^. 1 2. Whether there has been a greater quan- 

 tity of woodland, formerly producing oak, converted 

 to tillage within memory, than of land of a fit foil 

 newly planted with oak ? 



A. It is generally thought, there has not for up- 

 wards of fifty years back, 



^. 13. Whether the plantations which have been 

 made within memory, have been chiefly of oak, or 

 of the kinds of trees not fit for the navy ? 



A, From about 20 to 40 years back, Scotch fir, 

 and other foft and ornamental wood, were much 

 planted: fince that time, oaks have been much 

 more planted and fown. 



^. 14. Whether there are any commons, or 

 coiipmonable woods, of confiderable extent in the 



county ? 



