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CHAPTER THE SIXTH. 



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Winstta anti jTorcsts, 



XN no part of the kingdom can the value and inaportance 

 of land be fo great, as within a fhort diftance of the me- 

 tropolis; yet in this county, to find fuch extended and com- 

 paratively unprodu6live v^aftes, is not more matter of furprife 

 to foreigners, than a fource of real injury to the kingdom at 

 large. The journal has already cxprefFcd fo fully the prefent 

 value, and the probable impr 'vement of which thefe lands 

 are capable, that little further remains to be noticed in this 

 place, than a few obfervations touching the expediency 

 of keeping fuch parts of the forefl; land as are favourable 

 to the growth of oak timber, exprefsly for that purpofe. 



«* The right of cutting wood, varies in different parts of 

 " the foreft ; and where it is left to the difcretion of the in- 

 ** habitants, nothing but mutilated hornbeam pollards are 

 *' to be feen, whofe heads are cut whenever a few faggots 

 " can be colledled from them. 



** No buiTies are there allowed for the protedion of the 

 <• young p'ynts, without which, a fucceffion of trees cannot 

 *' be preferved againft the bite of the deer and other animals. 



<• On that part of the foreft, within the parifli of Epping, 

 *♦ confining of 527 acres, the lord of the manor has by dif- 



" ferent 



