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ing, the immeasurable timber, which will include 

 more than the mere crops, is worth something not 

 altogether inconsiderable both as stabs for fences or 

 fuel for burning. That of putting an increasing 

 value on young healthy thriving trees may be illus- 

 trated by the buying of a young horse, for instance ; 

 a horse at one or two years old is worth nothing for 

 immediate use or work, but in other two or three 

 years the horse, if he lives and continues to thrive, 

 he is now fit for work, and is at once worth double 

 or three times the price paid for him when young. 

 Now, young trees are not like a young horse, they 

 take no expense in rearing, and even granting the 

 plantations are only for profit, whenever they come 

 to maturity as timber trees, each tree is worth a large 

 sum. This is particularly the case with the natural 

 oak coppice woods, although these are newly cut 

 over, and worth nothing (in the eyes of some valua- 

 tors,) still these grow up without any trouble or ex- 

 pense, and a crop is got from their roots in twenty 

 years of L.150 per acre, or in some cases of L.200, 

 equal to L.7, 10s. of yearly rent. 



A HINT TO LANDSURVEYORS, AND NOT UNUSEFUL TO 



LANDOWNERS. 



Before finishing this miscellaneous manual, permit 

 me, with profound respect, to give a hint to that in- 

 telligent and respectable body of professional men, 

 landsurveyors, which I hope will be both useful and 

 interesting to landed proprietors. In another part 

 of this work, see page 44<, it will be seen that I have 

 recommended the propriety and advantage of all land- 

 ed proprietors having their lands, &c. surveyed by a 



