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It is about teu years ago fluce this fyfteui was firft in- 

 troduced, and fince that time there have been upwards of 

 ouc hundred acres planted, according to it. From part 

 of the early planting, one tboufand of the inferior trees 

 per acre have been cut away, which fold for 8/. fa. BJ. 

 for the purpofc of (hovel and fork handles, which is 

 only valuing them at two-pence each, clear of all ex- 

 pence, but they frequently fell confiderably higher; 

 good ones fell at four-pence each. But the profit does 

 not end here, as the future growth of the timber, thus 

 difpofed of, will for feveral years anfwer many pur- 

 pofes, fuch as turf-creels, &c., for which there is al- 

 ways a great demand. But the thinning of the afh 

 will, in a fhort time, bring more than double the 

 above. 



It is now clearly underftood, and I am fure that I 

 jun under the mark, when I fay, that, in fifteen years, 

 each acre will return 2o/., and this by cutting away 

 only fuch inferior fluff, as would, if fuffered to remain, 

 irrecoverably deAroy the principal timber, which, of 

 courfe, will require thinning in its turn, ,but not till 

 confiderabie profit may be made of it. 



In fhort, this is the moft profitable fyflem for moun- 

 taia planting I know of; and its effects, as being pic- 

 turefque, are already fully demonftrated here. Such 

 planting affumes a fuller appearance in five years, than 

 any other fpccics of planting, in fimilar foils and fitua- 

 tions, would have done in fevcn or eight years. 



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