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other under-wood of little value, to browze 

 his deer? and when the rind, and fpray are 

 eaten off, he faggots the dry flicks for his 

 own ufe. But thefe fellows cut down the 

 young timber of the foreft, without di- 

 tin6lion, and without meafure, which they 

 made up into faggots, and fold : and for this 

 paltry gain I have been informed, they com- 

 mitted wafte in the foreft eftimated at fifty 

 thoufand pounds damage. The calculation 

 feems large : but we may well imagine, that 

 in the unlimitted courfe of fixty or feventy 

 years, great mifchief might be done. For 

 tho a young faplin may not intrinfically be 

 worth more than half a crown ; yet the great 

 difficulty of getting another thriving plant to 

 occupy it's room in the foreft, raifes it's con- 

 fequence to the public much beyond it's mere 

 fpecific value. 



Much trefpafs hath alfo been committed 

 in the aflignment of fuel- wood. Valuable 

 timber hath often been allotted in the room 

 of decayed trees, to favour particular perfons. 

 Mr. Adams of Buckler 's-hard bought a piece 

 of timber, about thirty-fix years ago, of a 

 timber-merchant, who had purchafed it of 

 a perfon, to whom it had been afligned, as 



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