^4i WOODLANDS. n, 



adjullcd the eye, he depends afterward up- 

 on that alone ; except now-and-then check- 

 ing it with the rod and line. If the trees be 

 of moderate girt, the rod and line are fome- 

 times difpenfcd with, by men in great prac- 

 tice •, who, with the arms only, can take the 

 girt and the ground-length with fufficient ac- 

 curacy. 



3. Felling. The pra(5lice of refprlnging 

 fallen woods being the cflablifhed pradlice of 

 the country, that of felling timber trees a 

 few inches above ground is univerfally preva- 

 lent. Grubbing, or grub felling in the Nor- 

 folk manner, is feldom, if ever, pradtifed. 



The PEELING of oak timber is generallv 

 done by the day ; the labourers being, I be- 

 lieve, invariably employed by the timber- 

 merchant, not by the tanner : praftices which 

 are productive of a confiderable faving of 

 b.uk, Men working by the ton or the quar- 

 ter, or tanners paying by weight or meafurr, 

 will not peel the boughs fulliciently near j it 

 is againft their intercft to do it. But it is the 

 inttrcfiiof the timber-merchant, or of the tan- 

 ner, if he purchafe by the grofs, or by the ton 

 ftf timber, to peel fo long as the bark will 



pay 



