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would in your opinion be the means of increafing 

 the quantity of wood and timber ?* 



A. A divifion and inclofure, under proper regu- 

 lations, might poflibly be the means of increafing 

 the quantity of timber; but unlefs there was fome' 

 compulfory claufe inferted in the adb to fet apart a 

 certain proportion for the growth of timber, fuch 

 lands would chiefly be ufed in tillage. 



General Observations. 



The growth and improvement of oak timber, is 

 certainly a matter of fo much confequence, and of 

 fuch great national concern, that the want of it can- 

 not be too greatly dreaded, or precautions for the 

 prevention of it too foon adopted : however, at pre- 

 fent there does not feem to be in this county any 

 juft ground to apprehend the want of it, at leaft of 

 fmall timber. The only two ports of note here, for 

 building and repairing fhips, are Yarmouth and 

 Lynn, in which there has been no alteration in the 

 price of timber for many years, excepting only fmall 

 cccqfional fludtuations in it. And if the price of large 

 oak timber has in the kingdom at large increafed 

 (as it is faid to have done) from 7s. 6d. to los. per 



* Any further obfervations or information, on the fubjeft of the 

 preceding queftions, will be very acceptable. 

 Dated, Land Revenue Office, Dec, aotb, 1790. 



load. 



