APPENDIX. 51 



At the time this practice was begun, the idea of 

 planting the clofets or intervals was out of the quef- 

 tion, the foil in general being fb wretchedly bad ; but 

 two or three years made a wonderful alteration in it 

 for the better ; and every year, in proportion *s the 

 (helter is encreafing, and the drainage effected by the 

 fmall ditches operating, the foil is becoming better and 

 better ; fo that thofe clofets are filled up from time to 

 time with more valuable timber, fuch as larch and 

 beech, and fometimes Scotch fir, to enliven the fcene, 

 and afford feme variety for a few years. 



It would be an endlefs performance to enumerate 

 the different fecondary modes of planting made ufe of 

 here, as many of them differ very little from fuch as 

 are practifed in other parts. My chief object was to 

 point out fome of the moft difficult undertakings, in 

 order to fhew what induftry and perfeverance may ac- 

 fomplifh, and that in a few years. But before I take 

 leave of this fubjefc, I beg leave to lay before the 

 reader the method followed with refpeft to an oak 

 wood, which had been partly on the decline, and, ot 

 <;ourfr, was cut down tome years ago. 

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