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’ Advantageous, however, as promoting and ex~ 
tending the planting of timber and wood, in every 
point of view, may appear; it is not to be underftood 
that I mean the immenfe quantity of land above- 
mentioned fhould be planted; perhaps one acre in 
twenty, or at moft one in fifteen, would be fully 
adequate to the intended improvement, fo that the 
planting thofe lands, which in their prefent ftate 
are of very little value, would be fo far from di- 
minifhing the quantity of pafture and arable land, 
that it would add immenfely to it, as I fhall endea- 
vour to demonftrate. 
The fuccefs of every praétice affords the cleareft 
and moft fatisfactory evidence of the truth and 
juftnefs of its principles. It is now about eighteen 
or nineteen years fince we began to plant on the {pot 
Inow write on: fuch bits and pieces of land were 
chofenas afforded no kind of profit whatever. Some 
a quarter of an acre, fome a half, fome feveral, but 
none of any value. As it was meant by way of ex- 
periment, every fpecies of pines and firs which are 
commonly to be met with were planted; as like- 
wife every kind of foreft tree that is ufually planted - 
in England. ‘The pinesand firs run now in general 
from 20 to 30 feet high, and their circumference 
in proportion. I meafured one of the largeft pi- 
nafters a few days fince, and at two feet above the 
_ ground, the circumference was fifty inches, and a 
fpruce fir at the fame height, was thirty inches, and 
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