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IF the under-wood is only defigned to 

 remain for a term of years, that is, until 

 the trees grow up, the timber-trees may 

 be left at ten feet, if the ground is very 

 good ; but if it is only middling land, 

 eight will be iufficient. 



A PLANTATION converted iftto timber- 

 trees and under-wood that is to remain on 

 good land, will be of more value than any 

 other way it can be employed ; for in 

 countries where firing is fcarce it will every 

 fourteen years yield a great profit to the 

 proprietor, much more than good corn 

 crops, if their whole value was calculated 

 to the greateft nicety. And as the timber- 

 trees are ftill growing, and will have very 

 tall boles if they were managed as directed, 

 they will be of very little detriment to 

 the under-wood, and when they are of age 

 to cut will be of great value, 



IF the plantation be feventeen or 

 eighteen years old, never pruned nor drefied, 

 and planted at three or four feet di fiance, 



there 



