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distance for cartage is not necessarily much calcu- 

 lated upon by the purchaser, consequently he is 

 enabled to give a fair price to the seller. For 

 example: — were I to purchase good ash timber 

 from a proprietor whose plantations were within 

 two miles of a sliipping port, I would be enabled, 

 upon consideration of the short distance, to give 

 him 2s. 3d. per cubic foot : in this case I would 

 calculate upon selling the same wood at 2s. 6d. 

 per foot, allowing the 3d. which I would receive 

 extra, for the expenses of cartage and my own 

 profit. Again, were I to buy the same quahty 

 of ash timber from a proprietor whose plantations 

 were thirty miles from a shipping port, I could 

 not give in this instance more than Is. 6d. per 

 cubic foot ; because I would have to calculate, that 

 although I got 2s. 6d. for this wood, it would take 

 Is. per foot to cover my expenses of conveying the 

 timber to market, and at the same time to have a 

 little profit for my own trouble. And thus it is in 

 all cases, that for every mile of distance from the 

 market, the purchaser of wood is obliged to give 

 less to the seller ; and this because he has to meet 

 the extra expenses incurred in each mile of cartage, 

 previous to getting it brought to market. 



However, I may here state, as a general rule, 

 which 1 have verified from my own experience, 

 both in the lowlands and highlands of Scotland, 

 that land, under wood, will at the end of sixty 



