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dred and twenty-eight trees. Of these, eight hundred and 

 seventy-three, were cut down between 1809 and 1816. The 

 Duke of Athol had the satisfaction to behold a British frigate 

 built in 1819 and 1820 at Woolwich yard, out of timber 

 planted at Blair and Dunkeld, by himself and the Duke his 

 predecessor. And the extensive and increasing Larch forests 

 of those districts, may yet be called upon largely to supply 

 both our naval and mercantile dock-yards. Mankind are 

 prone to cherish and embalm the memory of individuals 

 whose claims to notoriety have originated in their wide-spread 

 destruction of the human race ; but they are too apt to forget 

 those who have been the benefactors of mankind. That a 

 vessel formed from trees of his introduction and planting, 

 should have waved the British flag over the ocean, is likely 

 to be all the reward contemporaneous or posthumous, which 

 will ever adhere to the noble Duke, for the great good he has 

 done to his country, and for the blessed legacy he has left to 

 his descendants, by the plantation of about fifteen thousand 

 five hundred and seventy-three English acres of ground, 

 which consumed above twenty-seven millions, four hundred 

 and thirty one thousand, and six hundred trees. 



The following is the probable supply of Larch timber from 

 Athol, beginning twelve years from 1817. 



Loads annually. Scotch acres about, 

 in 1829 



1841 4,250 



1851 8,000) 



1859 18,000 } 2,000 



1867 30,000 ) 



1883 52,000 > 



1886 120,000 S 



12 years before cutting, or 

 12 years before cutting, . 

 10 do. do. 



8 do. do. 



8 do. do. 



16 do. do. 



3 do. do. 



3,500 



69 



39 (years calculated to finish )jgg9 ^3. j g^Q 



6 ( plants marked out. ) ' ' 



72 years. Scotch acres, 7,000 



The Larch is unquestionably the most enduring timber 

 that we have. It is remarkable, that whilst the red wood or 

 heart wood is not formed at all in the other resinous trees, 

 till they have lived for a good many years, the Larch, on the 

 contrary, begins to make it soon after it is planted ; and 



