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SECTION 2. Indications of the Age in which Buried 



Woods and Trees must have fallen, ... ... 1 78 



In relation to Petrified Trees (p. 179) ; to Submerged Trees 

 on Cheshire Coast (p. ir x 

 of the Romans (p. 184). 



on Cheshire Coast (p. 181); to Trees buried in the time 

 ). 184). 



CHAPTER IV. Conservation, Replenishing, and Extension 



of Forests, 189 



In the 16th century (p. 189) ; in the 17th century (p. 190) ; 

 substitution of Coal for Firewood (p. 192) ; devastation 

 occasioned by browsing animals (p. 194) ; and changes 

 consequent on change of habit relative to hunting (p. 

 197) ; expense of planting (p. 199). 



PART III. FOKEST LEGISLATION. 



CHAPTER I. Summary of Forest Legislation in England, 200 



Light thus thrown on the state of Forests and Forestry 

 (p. 201) ; Summary (p. 202) ; and inferences deduced 

 (p. 205). 



CHAPTER II. Forest Legislation anterior to the " Charta 



Foresta," 207 



Laws of Canute (p. 207) ; Laws of the Normans (p. 210) ; 

 Extracts from Magna Charta (p. 212) ; Charta Foresta 

 (p. 215) ; technical terms relating to the Chase (p. 220); 

 to Wood (p. 222) and to Forest Officers (p. 223). 



CHAPTER III. Forest Legislation subsequent to the 

 " Charta Foresta " till the close of the Eighteenth 



Century, 227 



Summary by Mr M c William. 



CHAPTER IV. Former Game Laws, 237 



Summary by Mr M' William (p. 237) ; paper on the same in 

 Farmers' Magazine of 1799 (p. 238). 



CHAPTER V. State of Crown Forests in the Eighteenth 



Century, 242 



Reports made by Commissioners, 1787 1793 inclusive, 



