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were arranged for at Dunkeld, Grantown, Coleford, and Lynd- 

 hurst (at about 150 a year each), the total annual expenditure 

 involved would only amount to 4,500. This is surely a very 

 slight insurance to pay for the probable better management of 

 woodlands already amounting in actual minimum cost to over 

 twenty-and-a-half millions of pounds sterling, and most likely 

 to be very considerably added to in the immediate future. It 

 amounts, in fact, to less than three farthings per acre per 

 annum for the land already actually under timber. 



