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But the afforesting was carried out in a thoroughly unscientific 

 manner, the fatuous planting of oaks, etc., directly on the heather ending 

 in failure so disastrous that not a dozen have survived to the present 

 day. The failure of the projected oak wood was recognised very early and 

 pointed out by Tuke^ in 1800. 



Fig. 7. Eston Moor from Jeffery's 1772 map of Yorkshire. 



Fig. 8. Lonsdale and Kildale from Jeffery's 1772 map of Yorkshire. 

 1 Tuke, General View of the Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire (1800). 



