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this pradice, though it may have been 

 continued for centuries, has not deflroyed* 

 nor materially injured, the woods ^ which, 

 though not equal in thicknefs and even- 

 nefs, to the Suflex and Kentifh Coppices^ 

 are upon a par with thofe of the reft of the 

 Ifland. 



5. 6. The conversion and con- 

 sumption OF Coppice wood is, here, 

 into polesy for ufes in hufbandry, as the 

 roofs of fheds and hovels, rails, &c. &c. ; 

 cordwoody moftly for the ufe of fliips of war; 

 faggots of different forts, for fuel, and for 

 the ufe of the King's bake-houfes, &c. at 

 Plymouth. 



The ordinary price of cor dwoody in time 

 of peace, is about ten fhillings a cord, of 

 128 cubical feet (namely 4, 4, and 8) and 

 the poles and faggots in proportion *, 



III. The MANAGEMENT OF 

 HEDGE WOOD. This department of 



management 



* Formerly, Cordwood was sold by weight; 

 a praftice which is not, yet, altogether obfolete. The 

 |)rice about i8d. a featn, or 6d. a hundred weight. 



