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Oak timber 3I. 3s. to 5I. a ton, afh ditto 2I. to 

 3I. elm ditto. A mud cabbin 5I. 5s. ditto {tone 

 and flate 15I. A mafon's perch of a wall 4s. 

 Near Cattle Plunket, a bog of Mr. Arthur 

 levin's, let at il. 2s. 9d. a perch, 160I. per acre, 

 it is 2 1 deep of fine turf. 



Mr. Mahon's woods are all of his own plant- 

 ing, and having beiides 100 acres, a vaft num- 

 ber of hedge-rows well planted round many 

 inclofares, which join thofe woods, they all 

 take the appearance of uniting into one great 

 range of plantations, fpreading on each fide 

 the houfe. It is one of the ftrcngeft infiances 

 of a fine fhade being fpeedily formed in the 

 midft of a bleak country that i have any where 

 met with, being a perfecT: contraft to all the 

 neighbourhood. He began 35 years ago with. 

 afh, which trees are now 70 to 80 feet high. 



But the generality of the plantations are 

 from 1 7 to 30 years old, and are for that age, 

 I think, the fineft woods I ever faw ; they 

 confift of afh, oak, Englifh and French elm, 

 beech, maple, fpruce, Scotch and filver fir, 

 larch, &c. Of all thefe the beech are the 

 fineft trees, and of the greateft growth, many 

 of them 3 and 4 feet in circumference, and 

 30 to 40 feet high. The bark is bright and 

 beautiful, and every tree gives the itrongeft 

 figns of agreeing perfectly with the foil. One 

 very particular circumftance of this tree, Mr. 

 Mahon tried, which deferves the attention 

 of thofe who have deer j he made a plan- 

 tation 



