86 THE NEW FORESTRY. 



it could not be delivered to the consumer at a price that left 

 a margin of profit In the " Highland Society's Transactions," 

 vol. vi., p. 271, we are told that, "in 1841 the wood cut down 

 in Glentanar brought little or nothing more than the cost of 

 cartage to Aberdeen, owing to the almost inapproachable 

 position of the best trees in the forest, most of them being too 

 heavy to be floated by the river except in the time of flood." 

 Many such examples might be recorded. 



