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timbers. Too much praise cannot be bestowed 

 on his Grace in surmounting the obstacles 

 which were continually thrown in his way by 

 contractors and other interested persons, who 

 endeavoured to prevent this important expe- 

 riment from being made. A brig, of 171 tons, 

 called the Sarah, has also been built at Perth, 

 of larch timber, from the forest of his Grace 

 the Duke of Atholl. The Diana steam-boat, 

 which plies between London and Richmond, 

 is also composed of the same timber ; it was 

 built by Evans of Rotherhithe. 



The Duke has some beautiful cabinets 

 formed of this wood, in his house in Great 

 George-street, Westminster ; and we have 

 lately seen a table made from one of his 

 Grace's larches, which, in point of beauty 

 and closeness of grain, is nearly equal to those 

 formed from the root of the yew-tree. In 1 787, 

 and the following year, the Bishop of Llandaff 

 planted 48,500 larches on the high grounds 

 near Ambleside, in Westmoreland. John 

 Sneyd, Esq., of Belmont, in Staffordshire, 

 planted 13,000 larches between the years 

 1784 and 1786, and 11,000 more in 1795. 

 W. Mellersh, Esq., of Blyth, planted 47,500, 

 Joseph Cowlishaw, of Hodsock Park-, Esq., 

 planted 27,400. Richard Slater Milnes, Esq., 

 of Foyston, near Ferrybridge, in Yorkshire, 



