122 P L A N T I N G. 16. 



»nd be providing, at the fame time, a necejjkry 

 of life for the rifing community. 



It now only remains to mention the method 

 of SELLING and taking down timber, in 

 this Diftrift. 



The prevailing practice is to fell it {land- 

 ing, at fo much a ton when fallen ; mcafuring 

 the timber, down to fix inches timber-girt; the 

 top-iuood and x\\e. hark (of oak) becoming the 

 property of the purchafer; who is ufually at 

 the expence of takingr it down. 



It is likewife cuftomary for the purchaftjr 



to difpofeof the bark (oi oak), and fomcrimcs 



the top-wood, by the fame admeafuremcnt ; 



the prices of boijh varying according to the 



proportion which the tops of the trees, under 



fale, bear to their flems. 



/& -^i^' X ^^'^ ^^'^''^ ^^ oak-timb€r,m J'jSi, was three 



V~fjff^ J^ ^0 S^'>'''cas to three pound fifteen fhillings a ton, 



if^^r^~7f^Jx.^ of forty feet : the price of cak-hark, from ten 



d^ to twelve fhillings ; and of top-ivood, from 



fcven to twelve lliillings, each load of timber. 



The price of naked oak-timber, in the rough, 



was fifteen to twenty-pence a foot. 



l.-i-fod -^Tbe price o^ afJo timber^ 9iand\x\g, was forty to 



fifty ihillings a ton : in the ftick, ninc-pcncc to 



one fliilling a foot. 



The 



