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1870 he had business with proprietors over the whole country ; 

 he supphed Leopold, King of the Belgians, and also the 

 poet William Wordsworth at his residence at Rydal Mounts 

 Cumberland. 



Alves Plantation. — I cannot omit in this description of 

 Darnaway Forest a few words on one of the outlying plantations, 

 namely, Alves, Section 66. This plantation covers 320 acres, 

 altitude 120 feet; the soil in the lower parts is a thin sandy 

 loam on soft sand, while on the higher parts it is chiefly humus, 

 on a varying substratum, which in parts is rotten freestone and 

 in other parts a close rusty sand approaching to " pan." The 

 plantation has now been felled, with the exception of the 

 remaining 20 acres. The trees were about 70 or 80 years of 

 age, and considering the poverty of the soil they have done 

 well. Three hundred acres have realised ^20,041, which after 

 deductions for expenses worked out at ;£6^ odd per acre. The 

 friend referred to previously on leaving Scotland by road on 

 5th September 1923, wrote as follows: — "When we passed 

 between Forres and Elgin it was luckily not raining, so we got 

 out and had a look at Alves plantation. What a splendid 

 plantation it must have been and indeed still is, so far as it is 

 standing. When I saw the debris of the sawmill at Alves, it 

 struck me afresh what a pity it is after 70 or 80 years of effort 

 to let a stranger come on the scene and make, as he probably 

 does, as much or more profit out of the whole thing. I wish I 

 had been the purchaser." 



Conclusion. — I feel I have now reached a suitable point at 

 which I may close this address. There are some figures which 

 illustrate the numbers in which roedeer and capercailzie exist in 

 the forest of Darnaway, which have to be taken into account 

 in its successful management, which I think would be suitably 

 placed in Appendixes I. and II. In Appendix III. are recorded 

 the careful measurements of the planting of 1000 Cedars of 

 Lebanon at Goodwood Park by the third Duke of Richmond 

 and Gordon in 1761. 



