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prietor who has ever cut an acre of timber, or of 

 underwood, and who has rightly confidered the" 

 value, for a given time, of an adjoining acre of 

 the fame quality, which has been employed in 

 agriculture, and has experienced an ordinary ma- 

 nagement, muft, in fome meafure, be fatisfied of 

 the relative value of a crop of trees. * 



The importance, however, of planting, and of 

 cultivating the timber which is already planted, 

 as adverted to in the Introdu&ion, muft appear fo 

 manifeft, and is an employment at once fo rea- 

 fonable, fo profitable, fo pleafmg, and fo honour- 

 able, that it carries its own recommendation along 

 with it : it barely requires to be hinted to the 

 lover of his country. 



* See Tables of tfye value of timber in Appendix. 



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