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Articte III. 
Of the great improvement which may be made 
from a largely extended Cultivation of Timber and 
other Wood, with ihe means of performing the fame 
with the greateft fucce/s and advantage. 
{In a Letter by the fame, to the Secretary.] 
Sir, 
ie a former paper on this fubject, which I re- 
quefted the favour of you to offer to the confi- 
deration of your very refpectable Society, feveral 
facts were adduced that had fallen within my own 
knowledge, which clearly proved, that the price of 
timber for domeftic purpofes, and of wood for fuel,. 
was greatly advanced within the laft fifty years; 
and therefore, that an extenfive cultivation was not 
only expedient, but even neceflary, and was become 
a very important object to the land-owner, as well 
as the public at large; and therefore I took the 
liberty of recommending it to their moft attentive 
confideration. 
Since writing the paper above referred to, it is 
faid, the diftrefs of the poor in fome parts of Scot- 
land for want of fuel hath been fo feverely felt, that 
compafiion has thought it neceflary to bring a bill 
into parliament for affording them fome relief by 
taking off the duty on coals imported into thofe 
parts. ‘The defign is undoubtedly merciful, and 
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