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2,dly, 1 fee not a fyllable faid upon the fubje£t of 

 the flime or ooze left by the tide upon the flielving 

 banks of the Severn, and fimilar rivers where there 

 is a confiderable flovir of the tide, which I have fome 

 reafon to believe might be made a moft valuable ma- 

 nure for feveral forts of land. 



Thefe are the only circumflances to which I at 

 prefent am defirous of calling your attention, further 

 than to beg the favour of you to give me from your- 

 felf, or procure for me from fome correfpondent, an 

 explanation upon a fubjeft which I am glad to obferve 

 has claimed fo much of the attention of your fociety. 



The fubjeft to which I allude is, that of planting 

 of coppice wood, and the value of thefe woods when 

 cut and difpofed of. 



I have generally underflood that our coppice woods 

 in Monmouchfliire are as good as in any county of 

 England, and in greater extent ; but few or none of 

 thefe woods, after fourteen or lixteen years growth, 

 are often fold for more than as many pounds ; I may 

 fay, rarely for more than fifteen Ihillings for every 

 years growth. 



When therefore I read in your proceedings, that 

 woods of the fame fort, and without the advantages 

 of fituations which many parts of Monmouthfhire 

 ^offefs, in place of from nine to twelve pounds an 

 acre, are fold for feventy pounds an acre; you will 

 readily believe it muft: have created fome furprize. 



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