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valley, and woods and plantations are, by 

 their situation, constantly exposed to it from 

 the points of north-east or south-west, the 

 consequences are destructive to the quality of 

 oak timber growing thereon, for when sawn 

 or prepared for building purposes it proves 

 shaken. Instances of this I have known to 

 have occurred in timber felled on such a site, 

 as on the Beard estate, belonging to Colonel 

 Cavendish ; oak felled in the " Bea,rd "Wood" 

 and "Ox Hey" plantations has, in many 

 cases, proved shaken, while oak felled in 

 " Beard Hall Clough" and " ShedyardClough" 

 has proved " sound as an acorn." 



In the two former-named sites some of the 

 oaks were sheltered, the ground being con- 

 cave and convex, and the land being alternate 

 deep clay and rock, the latter understratum 

 being the roof of the coal lying ungotten 

 on the southerly range of the " Beard Hall 

 Farm," under which it lies in a "trough" 

 rising east towards Shedyard, and again from 



