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once cut down, it is difficult to get them to grow 
up again. This is the reafon why the woods on 
the north coaft of Devon and Cornwall appear to 
be, and really are, ina ftate of decay. In fact, Corn- 
wall which has long been thin of wood, will ina 
few years, efpecially if the high price of oak bark 
continue, be almoft deftitute of its» Many parts of 
Devonfhire, where the breeze from the fea, and par- 
ticularly from the north channel, does not affect 
them, are well wooded, and the woods well ma- 
naged and flourifhing. 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 
But of all the weftern counties, there is no in-= 
ftance of fo peculiar an aptitude in the foil and 
climate to produce timber and underwood, and of 
fo little attention being paid to the production of 
either, and particularly of timber, as in the county 
of Gloucefter. There are very few parts of this 
kingdom which can boaft of fo great luxuriance in 
vegetation as this county. “The underwood, on the 
fteep and almoft inacceflible fides of the Cotswold 
hills, frequently produces (wherever the owners take 
pains to keep the fheep out of it) a clear average 
rent from 20s. to 25s. an acre, per annum; and yet 
thefe valuable woods are fuffered to be ruined for 
want of fences, and daily get worfe. The bad ma- 
nagement of the Foreft of Dean, one of the fineft 
nurferies for timber in the kingdom, has fo long 
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