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Gloucefter, Devon, and Cornwall, begs leave to 
offer his obfervations on the fubject propofed by 
the Society. He has confined thofe obfervations 
to the management, and prefent flate, of what is 
generally called Coppice-Wood, and of the Timber 
growine in fuch Coppices, as fuppofing that to be the 
object of the Society’s prefent enquiries. 
Ufes of Underwood, or Coppice-wood.—The great 
and never-failing demand for the various articles 
into which underwood is convertible, and which muft 
be fupplied by the immediate growth of this king- 
dom, has always made, and will continue to make, 
the prefervation of woods, an object of attention; 
but as it isa work, not only of expence, but of time, 
to bring them to perfection, it behoves thofe who 
are in poffeflion of old well-planted woods, to keep 
them from going to decay; and, if their woods have 
fuffered by age or neglect, to do their endeavours to 
reftore them; for, notwithftanding the prefent al- 
moft general ufe of pit-coal has confiderably dimi- 
nifhed the confumption of wood and charcoal, for 
domeftic purpofes, the demand is ftiil fo very great 
for underwood, that woods will not only produce 
fuficient to pay the rent of the land on which they 
grow, but, if in good fituations, and well managed, 
will produce, at leaft half another rent, by the timber 
which may be raifed in them, without any material 
injury to the underwood. 
It 
