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penter’s hand, for fourteen-pence a foot, delivered 
where it was to be ufed; which, I am informed 
and believe, could not be bought at the fame place, 
now, little, if any thing under double the price; and 
I well remember the price of wood for fuel was 
thenupon the advance. Again, about 20 years ago, 
we bought about 2000 feet of oak timber, about 
two miles from the place where I now write, for fix- 
pence a foot only; now timber of the fame quality 
could not be bought any where in this neighbour- 
hood for confiderably more than double the money. 
At the fame time I fold bark near this place, for 
twenty-pence the hundred weight, and carried it 
fixteen miles; this feafon it has been fold for five 
fhillings a hundred, fome for confiderably more, 
and carried only eight miles. Wood for fuel is 
alfo advanced here about a third in value; what 
fold for ten fhillings a few years ago, now fells for 
fifteen. 
Since writing the above, I have have had fome 
converfation with a dealer in oak bark. He told 
me a coppice of oak had been lately fold in this 
neighbourheod for twenty-eight pounds, ten fhil- 
lings an acre, which the laft time it was cut at the 
fame age, was fold only for five guineas. The ad- 
vance is indeed aftonifhing, but I have no reafon to 
doubt the truth of it. The coppices in this part 
of the country are chiefly of oak, which often ftand 
twenty years and upwards, then they bark the poles, 
and 
