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to a new pit, which he must do where no boys are 

 employed. 



SECTION II. EXPENSES OF LAYING DOWN GROUND 



UNDER PLANTATIONS. 



In calculating the expenses hkely to be incurred 

 in the laying down of a piece of land under a crop 

 of young forest trees, the proprietor has to con- 

 sider, first, the nature of the figure in which he 

 may intend to lay out his plantation. Upon the 

 form or figure of a plantation much of the expense 

 of fencing it depends ; and as this item forms a 

 very considerable proportion of the entire cost, it 

 will be proper here to show the circumstances 

 which, when attended to, lessen this expense. 



When a proprietor intends to plant a piece of 

 land upon liis estate, say to the extent of fifty 

 acres, he cannot exactly calculate the sum that 

 would be required for the fencing of it until he 

 has laid out the line of plantation, and actually 

 measured the same — unless, indeed, he shall fix 

 upon a regular-sided figure ; and in order to illus- 

 trate the truth of this, I shall here give an example : 

 — To lay out a plantation of fifty acres in extent, in 

 the form of strips of four chains, or 88 yards 

 broad, the proprietor would require to erect 5676 

 lineal yards of fence to inclose it ; and supposing 

 the fence used in the inclosing of this plantation 



