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grows only twenty miles from the ports is re- 

 el aced in price by carriage only one-fourth of 

 its market-price ; and that grown within ten 

 miles of market, no more than one-eighth *. 



Thefe circumftances fhow, in a flriking 

 manner, the advantage of propagating timber 

 in the neighbourhood of fliip-yards j and 

 point out the impropriety of raifing it at a 

 diftance from water-carriage ; or fome elta- 

 blifiied inland-market. 



II. Plantations. The fpirit pf plant- 

 ing can fcarcely be faid to have gained a foot- 

 ing in the DiftriCt under furvey. 



Of late years the paffion of taking dpwa 

 has been much (Ironger than that of raifing 

 up. Indeed, in fome parts of it, the na- 

 tural WOODLANDS wbich abound render 

 PLANTATIONS lefs ncceffary. 



But 



* Some years ago the price of ordinary afli timber, 

 St Scarborough, was 1 1 d. a foot. I knew an inflance 

 cf a parcel being carried fomcwhat more than twenty 

 m'les (the inland-market being of courfe over-ftocked) 

 :ir the rate of 5 d. a foot for carriage. This reduced the 

 price to 6d. a foot in the place of its growth. Had 

 fuch afli 'imber been carried at thofe prices from the 

 cxtiemity of the Vale, it would have ncatcd only 2d. 

 a foot. 



