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lines are walks ; the pointed, ranks of trees and 

 walks. 



And for an instance of irregular figures, actually 

 surveyed, and dispos'd into walks, the following plot 

 is presented to me by the ingenious Esq. Kirk, set 

 out in a large wood of his (call'd Mosely) near his 

 house at Cookeridge (betwixt Leeds and Oteley) in 

 Yorkshire; the whole containing six-score acres : Nor 

 are such glades thro' copp'ces to be neglected, in 

 some regard preferable to the woods of taller trees, 

 obnoxious to be subverted by impetuous storms, which 

 the humbler copp'ces escape, and yet let in very noble 

 views and prospects; besides their inviting of game 

 for breed, and to shelter sonorous birds, which never 

 are found in lofty woods, where they are expos'd to 

 hawks and owles. 



And here should I shut up this section, were I not 

 most advantagiously as well as obligingly prevented, 

 by the improvement following (sent me from the 

 Reverend Mr. Walker), to shew how forest-trees may 

 be planted in consort with fruit-trees, at once answer- 

 ing both profit and pleasure: Take it as himself 

 describes it, which cannot be better. 



4 In open fields, where a man happens to have only 

 4 single broad lands or leys lying by themselves, or 

 4 only two or three lying together, in every such place 

 4 he may set a row of trees near the middle, every 

 4 second tree being a fruit-tree, and the rest forest- 

 4 trees : Or, on narrow pieces never likely to be 

 4 plowed (as on meadow ground, hades, &c.) betwixt 

 4 two fruit-trees may be set two or more forest-trees, 

 4 in a line crossing the row of fruit-trees, as in fig. 5th. 

 4 On arable ground he may make balks, which may 

 4 be mowed, and trees may be set on them. If upon 



