94 THE LARCH. 



Boads. — The roads, which are not metalled, but 

 only brought into form by throwing the earth out of 

 the drains cut alongside them into the centre, were 

 much broken up and filled with water. These, to the 

 extent of 1980 yards, were repaired in 1869 for the 

 sum of £"/, I OS. 



This is a very excellent plantation, and most of the 

 ground quite dry, so that cattle produce no bad effects 

 upon the trees. Horses are excluded, on account of 

 the hardwoods in the lower end of it, which they 

 would peel and destroy, but sheep are allowed to graze 

 at all seasons. 



No. 4 is a mixed fir plantation, planted in 1843, 

 and was the subject of a report to the Highland Society 

 in 1847, or rather published in the July number of 

 the " Transactions " of that date. It contains seventy- 

 two acres, each on an average containing 360 trees, 

 distributed thus: 338 Scotch pine, 20 larch, and 2 

 spruce. It is worth altogether ;^745, making 300 

 lineal feet annually per acre, value, 12s. 6d. The 

 transferable value is ;^io, 7s., being £y, 7s. for growth, 

 and ^3 added for original outlay. The prospective 

 value at sixty years' growth is ;^2 3 per acre. The 

 number of trees per acre may appear small when it is 

 seen that the plantation has been very little thinned, 

 but this is owing to large patches being quite destitute 

 of trees, having been killed by wet and moor-pan. 



No. 5 is a mixed fir plantation, planted in 1837, 

 and contains in round numbers fourteen acres. At 

 date of survey in 1868, it contained 330 trees per 



