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This long bank of wood is really in a miserable 

 state of neglect. There are, for about three or four 

 perches-length, from the east end ascending the 

 bank, where there are some very good trees, chiefly 

 ash, but on proceeding above that, there is little else 

 but trash or natural stool of alders, a few ash and 

 beech, and particularly, a little before arriving at the 

 bridge that crosses the river and onwards to the top, 

 there are hardly any thing but trash of that kind. 

 Here we come into a very marshy place for a good 

 way, which should, and could be very easily drained, 

 by cutting open drains through it. As this is a most 

 excellent bank for a natural oak wood, which is both 

 very profitable and ornamental in a place of this kind, 

 while in its present state it will not pay, or even come 

 to be useful to the estate in any sense, if allowed 

 to remain as it is ; indeed, it is still getting worse 

 by the trash killing what might have come to 

 be good trees ; besides, it is just so much lost land 

 to the property. The method to be followed here, 

 and to recover this almost lost place, is to go care- 

 fully over the whole, beginning at the east end, 

 marking all the healthy and thriving trees of oak, 

 ash, and elm, or other hard wood trees that there 

 is any hope of rearing to maturity as timber trees ; 

 and here I would also recommend a selection to be 

 made from amongst the natural stools of ash, &c. 

 although these may not come to maturity as tim- 

 ber trees, yet they may stand a few years, to keep 

 up the look of it as a wood, till others come up ; 

 marking all such trees with paint, and then cut 



