WOODS AND COPSES. 47 



number of years, namely, until the nurfe plants 

 be removed. 



A very advifabie and fit fituation for an oak 

 wood, may be found on the banks of a navigable 

 river ; or the banks of any confiderable ftream, 

 paffing through a broken furface of craggy or 

 rocky ground, where the foil consists of loam, 

 gravel, and decompofed rock. In fuch a fitua- 

 tion, the oak becomes most valuable ; and, ac- 

 cording to the different circumstances of foil, the 

 Am, and fome of the other kinds might be inter- 

 fperfed ; which will be farther noticed in the next 

 fection. The vicinage oPa navigable canal, alfo, 

 where the fituation and foil are favourable, is a 

 place very proper for the raifmg of an oak wood. 



There are likewife many fituations, altogether 

 inland, which are very fit for the fame purpofe. 

 Indeed, it is hard to fay in what part of the coun-% 

 try it would not be advifabie to attempt an oak 

 wood, if the circumstances of foil and local fitua- 

 tion be favourable, fince the tree, in the various 

 stages of its growth, is fo univerfally ufeful. 



II. Of Coppices. 



A natural copfe, with refpeft to its origin, and 

 the kinds of plants, (excepting refmous trees), 

 differs in nothing from a wood, as above defined. 

 A copfe is never allowed to rife to timber of any 



confiderable 



