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who examined it carefully, and offered the 
prices he ftated, for the trees as they ftood. 
The whole fence was thirty-four rods in ex- 
tent, of feven yards to the rod. 
so d. 
Cafting the bank perrod = 1 0 
Quicks coft - - ° 3 
Potts and rails, - - 1 3 Sie Se ibe 
34 rods, at - Fatal Seog a: 5° 
Mg coft per 100 raifing is. 0 12 8 
sipar Anke ; making holes and planting 1s. 0 12 0 a oe 
° 
Thirty years rent of: three-fourths of an acre, at 3s.gd. perannum 5 12 6 
Incidental expences (fuch as cleaning the plantation the firft 
four years; keeping up the fence; and putting in trees 6 0 
_ where any failed) I eftimate at - - 
47.4, 2 bb 
There were ftanding 980 large trees, which at a low valua- 
tion of as. 6d. ‘each, is - = 
Neat profit in thirty years 105 8 6 
Ries i090 0 
_ Therefore, after eftimating the land much 
beyond its value, and making a full allowance 
for the ceft and expences, it appears, this {mall 
plot of ground produced 31. 10s. annually. 
Here is another proof then of the great benefit 
refulting from planting fuch grounds: I have 
taken the eftimate of the quantity of trees firft 
planted at 1200, to allow for fome failing; but 
I have made no account whatever of the trees 
which were taken out as they grew up, to give 
room for the increafe of others, which’.would 
doubtlefs have more than repaid the labour of 
weeding and cleanfing the plantation for the firft 
four years; and alfo abundantly fupplied the 
fences, if any were broken down, before the 
quicks grew up fufficiently. 
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