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but flacks or houfes it; and generally fhives 

 and chops it ready for the tan- pit ; felling it 

 to the tanner at fo much a quarter. 



This cuftom appears to be founded on a 

 falfe bafis : the tanner is, or ought to be, the 

 belt judge of the mode of preparation, and 

 the operation ought to pafs under his eye. 



The pradtice o^ grinding bark does not feem 

 to have yet got footing in the Diftridl : when- 

 ever it does, it will of courfe bring the pre- 

 paration of bark into its proper channel. 



The medium^r;V^of chopt bark, 10 s. 6d. 

 a quarter. 



6. Carriage. The carriage of timber 

 has long been a diftindl employment in this 

 part of the Diftrifl. The price for twenty 

 miles, the nearcft diftance, is about 15 s. a ton 

 of forty feet j for forty miles, the iongeil: dif- 

 tance, 30 s. has been given :---^this is, in both 

 , cafes, nine pence a ton a 7nile^ 



Suppofing the price of oak timber at the 

 ports to be three pounds a ton ; and that it 

 lies at the weftern extremity of the Vale j the 

 carriage reduces the price, in the place of 

 growth, to 30 s. a ton •, which is one-half 

 of the price at market. But timber which 

 R 3 grows 



