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For gates and hurdles it is equally good, and being lefs 

 heavy than oak, is another great recommendation to it, as it 

 is removed from one place to another with greater eafe. To 

 thefe and many other purpofes, cheinut, trained and cut as 

 underwood, is peculiarly adapted ; and, in point of beauty, 

 no wood furpafles it, as it admits of clofe planting, runs flrait 

 in its branches, and always appears florid and healthy. 



I fhall next confider the value of the Spanifh chefnut for 

 timber, in which (except for the unrivalled purpofes of 

 fhip-building) it will be found for moft ufes equal to the 

 oak, and in buildings and out-door work much fuperior. 



In 1676, an anceftor of the prefent Mr. Windham, of Fel- 

 brigg, in Norfolk, had the merit of being a confiderable plan- 

 ter of chefnut. In the fpace of fifty years, it is prefumed thefe 

 plantations required thinning, as his fucceflbr, about that 

 time, began to apply this timber to ufeful purpofes upon his 

 eftate. 



The firft account is of the branch or limb of a chefnut, 

 about thirteen inches fquare, which, in the year 1726, was 

 put down as a hanging poft for a gate, and carried the gate, 

 without alteration, fifty-two years, when, upon altering the 

 inclofures of the farm where it flood, it was taken up, under 

 my dire&ion, and appearing to be perfectly found, was nut 

 down for a clapping-poft in another place. 



In 1743, a large barn was built with fome of this timber, 

 and is now as found in every part, beams, principals, and 

 fpars, as when firft the barn was built : about the fame time, 

 feveral chefnut pofts and rails were put down, which I have 

 fmce feen removed, and after (landing thirty or forty years, 

 generally appeared fo fpund, as to admit of being fet up in 

 fome other place. 



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