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inches diameter, and from twenty to twenty-five 
feet high, and promife to make as fine timber of 
the kind as ever was feen. 
In fhort, in whatever point of view we place this 
object, it is certainly of the moft interefting kind 
to the good of the country at large. It provides 
timber for the navy, and fecures the fafety and in- 
dependent fovereignty of the ftate, as well as for 
buildings of all kinds for domeftic purpofes; it 
provides fuel for the ufe of the poor, and the mid- 
dle clafles of the people, whofe very exiftence will 
foon, in many parts of the country, abfolutely de- 
pend upon it; and laftly, it will add to the intereft 
of the land-owner, far beyond what has been gene- 
rally conceived; I would, therefore, recommend 
it moft earneftly, to their ferious confideration, as 
a matter of the greate{t inportance to the fafety and 
profperity of this country. 
I fhould now proceed to offer fome confidera- 
tions for the moft fuccefsful and advantageous means 
of improving thofe lands, which in their prefent 
ftate are almoft. below eftimation, confiftently with 
promoting the growth of timber, é&c. as above re- 
commended; but as that would extend this paper, 
perhaps already too long, toa very inconvenient 
length, I muft requeft leave to fubmit it to the con- 
fideration of the Society in fome future paper. 
I am, Sir, &c. 
JOSEPH WIMPEY. 
Bratton-Clovelly, near Okehampton, Devon, 1794. 
