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to 990007. and the remaining 20601 at 220 years 

 growth, at but 87. per tree, comes to 1648087. besides 

 the inferior crop of meadow, or corn in all this 

 time, sown in the distances; reckoning for three years 

 product 90000 bushels at $s. per bushel, which will 

 amount to 22500!. besides the straw, chaff, &c. 

 which at 5^. a load, and 3^. a bushel chaff, comes to 

 202 5/. So as the total improvement (besides the 

 217 years emolument arising from the corn, cattel, S?c.) 

 amounts to 2883337. 



And these trees (as well they may) coming to be 

 worth for timber, 2o7. an oak ; the 20601 trees 

 amount to 4120207. and the total improvement of 

 the 1000 acres (the corn profits not computed) ascends 

 to 6758337. So as admit there were in all England 

 (and which his Majesty might easily compass, even 

 for his own proportion, and for posterity) 20000 acres 

 thus planted, at two foot diameter (and, as may be 

 presum'd, thirty foot high, which in 150 years they 

 might well arrive to) they would be worth 1351 666o7. 

 an immense and stupendous sum, and an everlasting 

 supply for all the uses both of sea and land : But it is 

 to Captain Smith's laborious works (to which I wish 

 all encouragement) that we have the total charge of 

 this noble undertaking from the first semination, to 

 their maturity ; by which it will be easie to compute 

 what the gains will be for any greater or lesser quantity. 



But now to return to the place of planting (from 

 whence this calculation has more than a little diverted) 

 we shall find, as we said, that even in the most craggy, 

 uneven, cold and exposed places, not fit for arable, as 

 in Biscay, Sfc. and in our very peaks of Derbyshire, 

 and other rocky places, ashes grow about every village, 

 and we find that oak, beech, elm and ash will prosper 



