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that a tree or trees with ten or fifteen solid feet of 

 timber, is worth sixpence more per foot generally 

 than those at five feet, as they will answer more par- 

 ticular purposes as timber, and as it is most generally 

 and well known that young healthy thriving trees at 

 from three to twenty feet of timber, will grow faster 

 and increase more in size in proportion annually, than 

 trees above those sizes, or those having arrived at or 

 near their maturity will do, the improving and in- 

 creasing price should be, and I would fix it at more 

 than trees arrived at or near their maturity or full 

 growth ; therefore the additional or improving price 

 for the trees at this, say an average of ten feet, 

 should also be ten per cent, added to their intrinsic 

 value as timber. 



The next average of the trees in every distinct 

 plantation or place should be taken at twenty feet. 

 In these sizes of trees the increase in growth is more 

 slow, therefore the improving price should only be 

 in addition to their intrinsic value as timber, seven 

 and a half per cent. 



The next average of trees in every plantation or 

 place should be all those at forty feet ; and here in 

 trees of this size the growth is much more slow, the 

 improving price should be only two and a half per 

 cent. 



The next description of trees will be all the old 

 full-grown trees, and as these may be said to be 

 rather fallen off as increasing in value, their intrinsic 

 value as timber will be a fair one between parties, 

 yet many of these trees, from the conspicuous situa- 

 tion they may hold on the estate as beautifying it, 

 may be reckoned worth more than double their in- 

 trinsic value as timber, so much so, that many pro- 



