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lice, that higher prices for large timber, should be paid by the public, than 

 heretofore has been usual. Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 225, 227, 315. 



539 Nine shillings per acre per annum, for 100 years, payable at the termi- 

 nation of that period, is less than a rent of 4d. per acre per annum, payable 

 every year. One shilling per acre per annum, in 100 years, would amount to 

 L.I 30. 



540 Sussex Report, p. 171, 172. 



541 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 226. 



542 Ditto, vol. ii. p. 330. 



543 Sussex Report, Appendix, No. II. p. 469. It is said that a 74 gun 

 ship requires 3000 loads of wood, the produce of 50 acres, each tree standing 

 about 33 feet apart, which, at L. 15 per load, would be L.900 per acre. At 

 one rod apart, the extent required would be twelve acres and a half. Marshall 

 on Planting, vol. i. p. 112. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Brussels, 

 vol. iv. p. 263, there is an essay by M. De Limbourg Le Jeune, on the means 

 of improving timber for the navy, which seems to merit attention. By previ- 

 ously barking the tree, it is said, that the whole timber it produces is thereby 

 rendered equally firm and solid. But this is a point on which there is a dif- 

 ference of opinion. Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 331. The fact ought to be 

 ascertained by accurate experiment. The American white oak is strongly re- 

 commended, as superior to every other for the wheels of carriages. 



544 Young's Calendar, p. 34. 



545 Oxfordshire Report, p. 224. The north side of a hill, produces a bet- 

 ter growth of beech than the south side ; a proof of the hardiness of the plant. 



546 Sussex Report, p. 222. 



547 Oxfordshire Report, p. 222. 



548 Bucks Report, p. 256, note. 



549 Inverness Report, p. 212. 



550 Buckinghamshire Report, p. 260. 



551 Bishop Watson's Preliminary Observations to the Westmoreland Re- 

 port, p. 290. 



552 Marshall's Review of the Northern Department, p. 225, note. 



553 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 330. 



554 Wilts Report, p. 91 The acre, which was measured in the form of 16 

 perches by 10, was found to contain the following quantities of timber : 



Feet. Tons. Feet. 



Nine oaks, measuring '< " '' '* -'*' 2952 or 73 32 



Twenty chesnuts and abeles, <UVv *.;;/ 3182 79 22 



Twenty-two small trees of various kinds, 280 7 



Total, ~ J 6414 or 160 14 



Being fully one ton of timber to a perch of land. 



555 In Perthshire, Col. Robertson of Struan has a natural fir wood, that 

 covers 2566 acres. Report, p. 235. 



556 The natural fir woods of Ross-shire, except one or two on the Balna- 

 gowan estate, are mostly exhausted. Report, p. 204. 



557 It was the trees that exceeded a specific circumference of bole, which 

 were by this contract to be felled. Since that was done, the younger wood has 

 made a great advance. Moray Report, p. 291. 



558 In the upper parts of Aberdeenshire, the fir timber is of slow growth. 

 It appears, in many cases, to be above 100 years old, and sometimes about 230 

 years, from the number of concentric circles near the root ; and it is consider- 

 ed far superior to any timber ever imported from Riga, Memel, or any part in 

 Prussia, or Norway. Aberdeenshire Report, p. 372. 



559 Where the soil is thin and barren, trees should be sown, as the tap-root 

 finds more nourishment from the subsoil ; but if the soil is wet, and pretty 

 deep, it is much better to plant them. Shropshire Report, p. 212, 214. 



