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Cabin for tfie man ......... 



Burning 263 sacks of charcoal, at 6d. per sack 

 Hailing Do. at 6d. per sack . ..... 



Unloading . . 



Wear and tear of sacks . , • 



too Cord of wood valued as fuel, at 6s. 



PRODUCE 



263. Sacks, of 9 bushels each, at 4s. io|d. per sack 64 2 i\ 

 From which deduct 47 10 o 



Balance in favor of charcoal in comparison with fire 



wood . . • ....•«•••• l o 1 2 1 -j 



As to the new planted woods, particularly those on the high 

 parts of Rodenbury Hill, Witham Park, and Kingsettle Hill, 

 although all kinds of wood grow well upon them (and especially 

 upon the sandy parts of them) provided they are planted in masses 

 sufficiently large to shelter themselves from the winds, yet nothing 

 appears to grow so well as fir, and particularly Scots fir. An occa- 

 sional mixture of silver fir, spruce fir, and larch, on some of the 

 best and most sheltered spots, and a general thin mixture of beech, 

 and other forest trees, add certainly very much to the variety and 

 beauty of the plantations in which they have been introduced, but 

 in point of profit the Scots fir stands unequalled, for rapidity of 

 growth, for superiority in value, when grown, and above all, for 

 its ability to bear the cold exposure of the country. 



There are instances on these hills, on land not worth in a state 

 of pasturage three shillings per acre, that plantations of Scots firs of 

 thirty years old, are now worth eighty pounds per acre, * and the 



* This is proved by stating, that at eight feet and a half distance, six hundred 

 and forty trees stand on an ace ; and that they are worth at a low computation, 

 two shillings and sixpence each. 



3 t demand 



