296 Weekly Sale of Timber and Brushwood. 



tations, and woods, of any one with whose labon 

 I have had acquaintance. 



A sale of timber and brush-wood takes place 

 two days in each week during the greater part 

 of the year. Fir trees of thirty years* growth, 

 sell for two shillings a foot. Brush-wood or 

 faggots, at half a guinea the cart load, or two 

 pence a stone full as dear as coals at Dro- 

 gheda. With the value of the bark from the 

 larch, for the purpose of tanning, I had the 

 pleasure of bringing Mr. Foster acquainted. 



Mr. White, of Busfield plantation, in the 

 county of Durham, has great merit in his at- 

 tention to this subject. In cases where larch 

 is felled for the proprietor's use, this appro- 

 priation of its bark must add greatly to the 

 value of the trees ; but where the timber is 

 sold after it is stripped, the loss of admeasure- 

 ment in the girt must be taken into consider- 

 ation; as in most cases it would exceed the 

 general allowance. 



The ground which is planted will, I con- 

 ceive, on an average of years, afford a greater 

 return than had it been under a system of con- 

 vertible husbandry ; as it is calculated that at 

 the expiration of sixty years, the timber on 

 3 



