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of these matters as valuators, as both may be losers 

 thereby. On the valuation of the woods, plantations, 

 and timber trees on sundry estates of late, and which 

 I could mention by name, the greatest difference be- 

 twixt valuators, as to the valuation, has taken place ; 

 in one case no less than about L.12,000 sterling. 

 The one valuator, who shall be nameless, proceeded 

 on the principles as herein laid down, and the other 

 as a valuator of timber only, the one was about 

 L.20,000, and the other only about L.8000. The dif- 

 ference arose from the following ; there were on the 

 estate about 200 acres of oak coppice, well enclosed, 

 and pretty well filled up with oak about seven years 

 growth ; all this, except a few old reserve or maiden 

 trees, went for nothing with the timber valuator. 

 There were also upwards of 100 acres of young plan- 

 tations, all well enclosed and thriving, from three 

 years old to thirty, all full and well kept j those of 

 the plantations from three years old up to fifteen 

 years, were not by the timber valuator valued at as 

 much as would pay the plants and expense of plant- 

 ing, notwithstanding all of them were most substan- 

 tially and permanently enclosed with stone fences, 

 and the situations well selected as an improvement 

 on the estate ; also those of them from fifteen to thir- 

 ty years old were only valued by him as fit for stobs, 

 and insignificant stuffj although the trees in many of 

 these plantations, being chiefly larch firs, will average 

 three feet of solid timber ; herein lay the greater part 

 of the difference. Although the estate was intended 

 to be taken at a valuation, I need hardly add, that 

 even the lowest valuation did not give satisfaction, 

 nor please either of the parties. 



How foolish and how false in the extreme it is for 



