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merly reared their heads in this Diftrift arc 

 now nearly extirpated. There is, I believe, 

 but one eftate, and that not of confiderable 

 magnitude, upon which any large timber can 

 now be found. 



The AGE OF SELLING is therefore lower 

 here than in moft other countries. There 

 are inftances of fapling woods being fold at 

 foriy cr fifty years old -, and, when fituated near 

 a new Inclofure, are thought to pay better at 

 that age than they would have done had they 

 been fullered to Hand a longer time. 



One fold at forty years old neated to the 

 feller about twenty pounds an acre. The 

 foil a cold fpringy clay ; — worth, in a flate 

 of ordinary improvement as arable land,feven 

 or eight Ihillings an acre. But it would coft 

 a confiderable portion of its value to change 

 it from a flate of woodland to that Hate. 

 Therefore, confidering the coll of improve- 

 ment in one cafe, and the profit of the wced- 

 Jing plants and underwood in the other, it is 

 much more eligible to keep it in its prcfent 

 llatc, or to improve it to the utmoft as Vv'ood- 

 land (there being in this inflance fcvcral va- 

 cant patches), than to fubjcd it to agricultural 



management. 



The 



