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ship was pointing out to me the beauties of the room, 

 (which was very splendid,) and adding the immense 

 sum it cost, and the time occupied by the artist in 

 adorning it ; his Lordship seeing me looking out 

 at the window, said, I suppose, Monteath, these 

 have no great charms for you, you would rather 

 see a good tree ; which brought a reply, Oh ! my 

 Lord, yonder is a Spanish chesnut and some lime 

 trees, which no doubt are some of nature's favourite 

 children, which the revolution of centuries has only 

 brought to their present degree of perfection, without 

 any expense to the Duke, either of five thousand 

 pounds, or one pound. The third part of their years 

 will tarnish many parts of the beauties of this room, 

 whilst, with these venerable trees, the more years the 

 more beautiful, and when drest in their summer robes, 

 I say verily, not this princely room only, but Solomon 

 in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 



In my Forester's Guide, first and second edition, 

 I have given a method of valuing woods, both natu- 

 ral and planted, and timber trees of all sizes, which 

 I have the satisfaction and authority of saying has 

 been generally useful to the Proprietor, Forester, 

 and Merchant, for whom such a system of valuing 

 was intended. The difference of opinion among 

 those who are generally employed to value woods, 

 &c. for the sale of the estates or lands on which they 

 grow, is very great. A great many of the persons 

 employed to value woods are such as make merchan- 

 dise of that article, say wood merchants, these gen- 

 tlemen, generally speaking, are very good judges of the 

 value of timber when it comes to the timber-yard, and 

 particularly those who are in the practice of buying and 

 manufacturing growing wood and trees, still the great- 

 er part of these valuators proceed upon the supposition 



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