94- MANAGEMENT OF WOODLANDS'. 



This unufual mode of proceeding gives 

 a piece of Woodland, undergoing thefd 

 operations, a ftriking appearance to the eye 

 of a ftranger, travelling through the coun- 

 try, in the fummer feafoh. The purchafer's 

 ihares are marked out in fquare patches ; 

 and the fe divided again into flripes of dif- 

 ^ ferent colours : one white, with barked 

 poles lying along upon the flubs ! another 

 brown, — 'the leaves of the early peeled 

 poles, yet Handing, being already dead, and 

 changed to this colour : a third mottled^ 

 having naked ftems, headed with yet greert 

 leaves ; while perhaps the remainder of 

 each patch, referved for another year's fall, 

 appears in its natural green. 



This method of taking down Coppice 

 wood, however, has been prac^ifed, time 

 immemorial ; and, where Firewood and 

 Bark are the principal objedts of produce, 

 a more eligible method would be difficult 

 to ftrike out. The practice of fuffering thei 

 peeled ftems to remain upon the roots, in 

 the firfl: inflance, as well as that of after- 

 wards letting them lie upon the ilubs, is 

 theoretically bad. The fa<5t hov/ever is, 



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