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No. LXVI. 



Barnegaul and Gloster Farms, Kintarbert Estate, 



Argyleshire. 



In different places of these farms are excellent 

 land for planting, which would be very productive 

 and profitable in wood, and is good for nothing else ; 

 but not being instructed to take notice of any new 

 land, for the present I will pass it over. On these 

 farms there are many unenclosed natural stools of 

 oak, which prove to a demonstration that these farms 

 have been at one time much better covered with 

 wood than they are now ; notwithstanding their un- 

 protected state, there are a great many oak stools, 

 from which timber trees could be reared as single 

 standing trees, and that too without taking a single 

 foot of ground from the farm. To have such trees 

 in these places, is an acquisition of the very greatest 

 importance, not only on the above farms, but on all 

 the others ; but particularly here, on the easter part 

 of Culnashennaig, taking all these places together. 

 From the unenclosed stools which are totally with- 

 out and unconnected with any of the coppice en- 

 closures or boundaries, two to three thousand trees 

 could be reared, say from some of the stools two, 

 and not exceeding three trees from any of them, 

 which will take little trouble in rearing, besides beau- 

 tifying in a superb degree those naked places, they 

 will in twenty years be worth at least L.2000 ster- 

 ling ; in forty years, upwards of L.6000 sterling, and 

 that without taking one foot of land off the farms. 

 I beg to call the proprietor's particular and imme- 

 diate attention to this ; all that is requisite is, to go 



