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A METHOD ON EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES FOR VALUING 

 WOODS, PLANTATIONS, AND TIMBER-TREES OF ALL 

 AGES, AS INSEPARABLY ATTACHED TO AND TO BE 

 SOLD WITH THE LANDS ON WHICH THEY GROW. 



That woods, plantations, and timber trees, hold 

 a most distinguished place on every estate in the opi- 

 nion of every one, but especially of a proprietor, 

 none will deny, whether we view them, for ornament, 

 screen, shelter, or profit. These are in an especial, 

 and infinite degree interesting, where the estate is 

 the residence of nobility and rank, and inexpressibly 

 so, when occupying the pleasure grounds around a 

 mansion, lawn, park, or grove ; so that trees grown 

 up to half maturity, and healthy and thriving on the 

 pleasure grounds, as they are yearly increasing in 

 beauty, size, and value, are certainly (and will be 

 considered so by every lover of trees) worth double 

 their intrinsic value, as timber, when to be sold to 

 the tradesman. The value of all such plantations 

 and trees will be infinitely appreciated, when we con- 

 sider them in their true light, as the only permanent 

 beauties that can adorn the face of nature. Being 

 myself a great lover of trees, my zeal may lead me 

 to value those occupying a pre-eminent station around 

 the mansion of a proprietor, whose stately, gigantic, 

 and pyramidal tops are seen from the windows, tow- 

 ering to the clouds in magnificent grandeur, much 

 higher than the most splendid unnecessary furniture 

 of the drawing room. Being once in the drawing 

 room of the palace of a noble Duke, in company with 

 a noble Lord, while waiting on his Grace, his Lord- 



