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Castle Estate, in North Wales, the actual 

 profits on a larch plantation that was formed 

 on hill-side ground, previously rented at 

 2s. 6d. per acre, was 11s. 3d. per acre for 

 forty-two years; and on the Gwydyr property, 

 near Llanrwst, the agent showed me the 

 returns that had been got from a larch wood 

 near Trefriw, which were rather above these 

 figures. 



The extensive hill-side plantations formed 

 by the late Lord Power scourt in Ireland, 

 those at Glendalough in the same country; 

 by the Duke of Athol between Dunkeld and 

 Blair Atholl; at Glengoy, in Aberdeenshire ; 

 at Strathkyle, in Ross-shire; at Gwydyr and 

 Penrhyn Castle in the Principality of Wales 

 all of which were formed over forty-five 

 years ago, and the cost of formation and 

 management strictly kept are surely suffi- 

 cient evidence not only of the profitable 

 returns from woodlands, but of the feasibility 

 of afforesting mountain lands, and the vast 

 benefits that have been secured in the way of 

 shelter to the dreary, treeless, and bleak, 



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