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pay, it being already well enclosed. But let us take 

 the present crop on the ground, and here the 

 ground, as aforesaid, will carry the first to full ma- 

 turity as timber trees, still these will only improve 

 and increase in value for forty years, not exceed- 

 ing that time, when they will then fall off in va- 

 lue, and of course, require to be all cut over ; nor 

 will they increase in value to that degree to pay 

 any thing like a fair rental for the ground they oc- 

 cupy. The rearing up of these trees too will be at- 

 tended with some difficulty, from the long neglected 

 state of thinning ; still thinning is actually necessary, 

 as there is evidently a great many more trees on the 

 ground than it can afford nourishment for, so that in 

 a very few years the whole will become stinted in 

 the growth for want of nourishment, as is evidently 

 the case already in some particular places. It is 

 therefore necessary, to preserve any thing like a crop 

 of thriving trees on the ground, that the whole be 

 thinned out immediately, and that this must be done 

 with the greatest care and attention, as in many 

 places where the ground is so over-burdened, it has 

 become so loose, that the trees will be easily blown 

 over, so that the cure will become worse than the 

 disease ; but to prevent this, the thinning must be 

 proceeded with gradually, — say the first thinning, 

 take away all the worst and most unthrifty of the 

 trees, thinning out to about eight feet, or as near as 

 can be, tree from tree. Allow it to stand with this 

 thinning for five years longer, when the trees will 

 have firmed in the roots, and will admit of another 

 thinning, when they may be thinned out to sixteen 

 feet, tree from tree, or as near as can be, when the 

 thinning will be of considerable value. Take care 

 to leave always the most healthy and thriving of the 



