LETTERS 



TO THE 



BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND..\ 

 AGRICULTURE SOCIETY, 



Article I. 



A Series of Letters on Plantings and the Management 

 of Woods^ from Thomas South, Efq^\ to the 

 Secretary. 



T.ffTTPH T. 



Sir, 

 nr^HE memoirs you obligingly fent hither gra- 



-*• tificd me exceedingly j they contain an am- 

 ple fund of Agricultural Experiments; but that 

 grand national objed, the growth of timber y has hi- 

 therto been fparingly treated of. It may not be ge- 

 nerally known, that the deftrudlion of Oak, to- 

 wards the middle of the prefent century, became 

 fo very rapid, as to occafion public enquiry in 



1771, the returns* to which afcertained, that the 



•- Vide thefe Rctujms in the Commifllonerg 3d Report, p. 7«» 



Vol, VI, B na^al 



