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the benefactors of mankind. That a vessel formed from 

 trees of his introduction and planting should have v^raved 

 the British flag over the ocean, is likely to be all the 

 reward contemporaneous or posthumous, which will ever 

 adhere to the noble Duke, for the great good he has done 

 to his country, and for the blessed legacy he has left to his 

 descendants, by the plantation of about fifteen thousand 

 five hundred and seventy-three English acres of ground, 

 which consumed above twenty-seven millions, four hundred 

 and thirty-one thousand, and six hundred trees. 



The following is the probable supply of Larch timber 

 from Athol, beginning twelve years from 1817. 



12 years before cutting, or 

 12 years before cutting, 

 10 do. do. 



8 do. do. 



8 do. do. 

 16 do. do. 



3 do. do. 



in 1829 

 1841 

 1851 

 1859 

 1867 

 1883 

 1886 



Loads annually. 



4^50 



8,000 ) 



18,000 } 



30,000 ) 



52,000 ) 



120,000 \ 



( years calculated to finish ) 1039 130 000 

 ( plants marked out. ) 



Scotch acres abonC 



2000 

 3000 



1500 



72 j'ears. 



Scotch acres, 7000 



The Larch is unquestionably the most enduring timber 

 that we have. It is remarkable, that whilst the red wood 

 or heart wood is not formed at all in the other resinous 

 trees, till they have lived for a good many years, the Larch, 

 on the contrary, begins to make it soon after it is planted ; 

 and while you may fell a Scotch fir of thirty years old, 

 and find no red wood in it, you can hardly cut down a 

 young Larch large enough to be a walking stick, without 

 finding just such a proportion of red wood compared to its 

 diameter as a 'ree, as you will find in the largest Larch tree 

 in the forest, compared to its diameter. To prove the 



