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ing of it does very little prejudice to the plow or 

 pasture. 



It is likewise affirm'd, that upon a living in the 

 same place, of about 40 /. per an. rent, there was (by 

 an estimation taken in the year 1653) three hundred 

 thirty eight young timber trees valu'd at fifty nine 

 pound ; the saplings at thirty one pound fourteen 

 shillings : And upon a later survey taken the last 

 year 1 677, the worth of the timber on that living, 

 is valued at above eight hundred pound, besides four 

 or five hundred young thriving trees, which have 

 since the survey in 1653 g rown naturally up, not 

 reckoned in this account. With such, and the like 

 instances, coming to me from persons and gentlemen 

 of unquestionable credit (dispersed through several 

 other counties of this nation) I might furnish a just 

 volume ; and I have produced these examples, because 

 they are conspicuous, full of encouragement, worthy 

 our imitation ; and that from these, and sundry 

 others which I might enumerate, we have made this 

 observation, that almost any soil is proper for some 

 profitable timber-trees or other, which is good for 

 very little else. 



23. Besides common pasture which has long been 

 fed, and is the very best, meadow, that is up-land 

 and rich, and such as we find to be naturally wood- 

 seere (as they term it) the bottoms of downs, and 

 like places well plow'd and sown, will bear lusty 

 timber, being broken up, and let lie till Midsummer, 

 and then stirred again before sowing about November. 



Mr. Cook's directions are these : Prepare as for 

 sowing of barly, about February scatter your seeds : 

 If you plow your ground into great ridges, the 

 thickness of the earth on the top will afford more 



