92 MANAGEMENT OF WOODLANDS; 



3. The DISPOSAL OF Coppice WOOD. 

 The common medium affile is the furvey 

 or au(!^ion : the proper vehicle of dif- 

 pofal, in all cafes where large allotments of 

 v/ood, of every kind, are to be difpofed of, 

 in the grofs ; provided men of property 

 and common honefty can be drav/n together 

 as bidders *, But, in, this Diftridt, where 

 the bidders at fuch fales are, many of them, 

 men without property o? principle, public 

 auctions become a hazardous mode of dif- . 

 pofal ; as mofi: men of property, in the 

 Diftrid, I underfland, have experienced. 



This clafs ofpurchafer s are chiefly working 

 woodmen, who unite themfelves into com- 

 panies or fets, in order that they may com- 

 pafs, the better, the parcel on fale ; after- 

 wards, Iharing it out among themfelves ; 

 and each employing alliilants to take down 

 his own fhare. 



The prices of Coppice wood, by the 

 acre, are various ; according to the age , 

 ;ind quality ; and have lately had a rapid 

 rife, on account of the high price of bark ; 

 ,and the great demand for wood, which the 



war 

 * See York. Econ. Vol.1, p. 241. 



