444 ^n rearing oah woods. Feb. f /* 



Plantations near a river, or the sea, are no doubt 

 to h€ prefelrted for the convenience of water car- 

 riage ; but v^exe the carriages called teams, made on 

 jiurpbse in England for transporting timber, to be 

 ttdopted here, land carriage would not come so high 

 sis it does at present. A tearti of two horses, will 

 bring three of four tons ten or twelve miles at a 

 \try moderate charge. 



Where there are rivers near plantations, in which 

 there may be cataracts j these may sometimes be a- 

 voided. There is a fir wood, in a very elevated si- 

 tuation in the Highlands, which belonged to a gentle- 

 man of the name of Grant ; most of the trees are 

 large enough to be fit for masts to a man of war. 

 A Mr Bacon from Yofklhire, hearing of this Wood, 

 tvent to see it. It is situated near a river, in which 

 there is a deep cataract, over which he caused the 

 trees to be tumbled, when the river became flooded j 

 but upon examining them, they were so much fliakert 

 by the fall, as to be rendered unfit for masts, and he- 

 abandoned the speculation. |Soma yeafs after, a Mr 

 Dodesworth, from the same county, a gentleman of 

 penetration, hearing of this extraordinary wood, 

 ivent to see it, and having examined the banks of 

 the riVer he bought the wood. He directed a small 

 tanal, oF ditch, to be cast from above the cataract, 

 sloping along one of the banks, into which, when the 

 river was flooded, the timber was conducted to a 

 safe situation in the bed of the river, and so down to 

 the sea. 



The price of bark in England, is from L. 6. los. to 

 Ju. '], per ton, (20 cwt.) when brought here, loaded 



