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worth from eight to ten shillings per acre, after the first 

 thirty years, when all the thinnings have been completed, 

 and the trees left for naval purposes, at the rate of foui 

 hundred to the acre, and twelve feet apart. 



The Larch is a very quick grower. Between 1740 and 

 1744, eleven trees were planted at Blair, the girths of 

 which, at growths from seventy-three to seventy-six years, 

 ranged from eight feet two inches to ten feet. This lot 

 was calculated to average one hundred feet each, in the 

 whole one thousand two hundred feet. The total measure- 

 ment of this lot of twenty-two trees, therefore, is two thou- 

 sand six hundred and forty-five feet, which, at the moderate 

 value of two shillings per foot, would give the sum of 

 £264 10s. ($1174) for twenty-two Larch trees, of something 

 under eighty years' old. We find by the Duke of Athol's 

 tables of measurement, that trees planted by him in 1743 

 were nine feet three inches in circumference, when mea 

 sured at four feet from the ground, in 1795. 



The plantations of Larch made by James Duke of 

 Athol, between 1733 and 1759, amounted to one thousand 

 nine hundred and twenty-eight trees. Of these, eight 

 hundred and seventy-three were cut down between 1809 

 and 1816. The Duke of Athol had the satisfaction to 

 behold a British frigate built in 1819 and 1820 at Woolwich 

 yard, out of timber planted at Blair and Dunkeld, by 

 himself and the Duke his predecessor. And the extensive 

 and increasing Larch forests of those districts may yet be 

 called upon largely to supply both naval and mercantile 

 dock-yards. Mankind are prone to cherish and embalm 

 the memory of individuals whose claims to notoriety have 

 originated in their wide-spread destruction of the human 

 race ; but they are too apt to forget those who have been 



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