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that could be planted, which from its locality to sea 

 carriage and good roads, supposing oak bark to keep 

 only its present low price, when properly converted 

 into oak coppice and cut in yearly hags or cuttings, 

 say about 50 acres yearly, would bring annually to 

 the proprietor not less than from seven to eight thou- 

 sand pounds sterling, and that for all time coming, 

 without any expense but the first enclosing and plant- 

 ing, which will be but a trifle. This is certainly well 

 worth serious consideration, that by laying out a few 

 hundred pounds of the rental for a very few years, 

 say for eight or ten years only, on this and some 

 other places, it would insure to the property from 

 ten to fifteen thousand pounds of additional yearly 

 income, from lands that are not bringing just now 

 L.100 of annual rental to the property. This is 

 equally valuable, and indeed more so, than buying as 

 much more land to the estate, as no purchase of land 

 could ever insure a rental of L.10 per acre, besides 

 beautifying the country as well as the estate, and 

 giving bread and clothing to many a poor labourer 

 and his family. 



No. XLVII. 



Dargle Glen, Powerscourt, Ireland. 



This being so conspicuous a place, and so much 

 a place of resort, from the nobleman to the lowest 

 mechanic, in the present state of the property, to cut 

 and carve with it as a plantation of trees, would, 

 I am much afraid, be treading too much upon 

 sacred ground j one thing must be plain to everv 



