94 KINDS Of TREES, 



thofe foils and fituations adapted for them, the 

 properties would have been greatly enhanced in 

 value, the Larch bearing the afcendancy over the 

 Scots fir, in the following important circumftan- 

 ces ; that it brings double the price, at leaft, per 

 meafureable foot ; that it will arrive at a ufeful 

 timber fize, in one half or a third part of the 

 time, in general, which the fir requires ; and a- 

 bove all, that the timber of the Larch, at thirty 

 or forty years old, is in , every refpeft fuperior in 

 quality to that of the fir at a hundred years old- 

 In fhort, it is probable that the Larch will fuper- 

 fede the Scots fir in moft fituations in this ifland 

 at no very diftant period. 



The general ufefulnefs of Larch timber is now 

 pretty well known, in moft parts of this country ; 

 it is therefore hardly neceflary to enumerate the 

 purpofes to which it is applicable. It may be e- 

 nough, perhaps, to (late, that it is ufefui in fhip- 

 building, in houfe-building, in hufbandry, for 

 machinery, and in cabinet- making. It is exceed- 

 ingly durable in any fituation ; and perhaps more 

 fo than any other timber, when placed under 

 water, or in ground where it ftands partly wet 

 and partly dry. It is therefore moil ufeful in the 

 conftruction of mill-dams, iluices, or the like j 

 for mill-cogs, gate-potts, &c. ; in which latter cha- 

 racter, the bark mould be retained on the part to 

 be funk, and an inch or two above the furface 



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