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bouring trees, say the underwood. At the age of 

 thirty years, 50 of these trees may be cut out, 

 which will be a bad growth indeed if they are not 

 worth 10s. each, say L.25 per acre ; at the end of 

 sixty years, other 50 trees may be cut out, which 

 will be worth at least L.2 per tree, L.100 per acre, 

 this is L.125 per acre for sixty years growth, and 

 upon the same data, there is L.375 worth of large trees 

 on each acre ; here is L.2 per acre of annual rental 

 from the time the plantations were planted, and here 

 is the immense sum of L.375 per acre on the ground, 

 besides all the young trees still coming up. But sup- 

 posing at twenty years old, these woods are brought 

 into a regular system of cutting, and the most pro- 

 fitable trees for timber being reared as the trees 

 to be regularly cut, say the oak, ash, elm, and 

 plane, all which, as often as cut, will grow up natu- 

 rally from the stool, without any expense of planting. 

 Now after having reduced these woods to a regular 

 system of cutting, every twenty years there is fifteen 

 acres to be cut annually ; from these fifteen acres, 

 there may be cut 200 trees of the 400, from every 

 acre, and supposing 100 of these to have stood for 

 forty years, this, as it is technically termed, one 

 year old, and two year olds, then falls to be cut on 

 this plan, yearly, 100 trees at twenty years old, and 

 100 trees at forty years old off every acre, which 

 trees,, in a manufacturing district like Rowallan, will 

 always bring the highest price, will sell for, on an 

 average, and at the lowest calculation L.l per tree, 

 which is L.200 per acre, for every fifteen acres which 

 will cut from these stripes and belts of planting, an- 

 nually, for ever. Now, here is a yearly rental from 

 these woods, and will be to all times, of L.oOOO, and 



