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made to plant and to re-afforest a good deal of the land in this 

 county which at present is almost unproductive, and bringing 

 little or no profit either to its owner or its tenant. 



In this very short sketch that he has given of this interesting 

 book, the writer does not pretend to have been able to do 

 justice to it. He hopes, however, that this mention of the 

 book may induce many of the readers of the Derbyshire 

 Archaeological Society's Journal to study it themselves, and by 

 doing so gain a greater knowledge of and a more thorough 

 insight into the life led by their ancestors in days of old. 



