ADDEND.] THE LARCH. 



upright paling, rails, and hurdles. Those fit 

 for sawing, were sawn through the middle ; 

 the smaller used round, with the bark on, and 

 proved more durable than oak copse-wood of 

 twenty-four years' growth. 



Boats built of the larger timber have been 

 found sound, when the ribs, made of oak forty 

 years old, were decayed ; and we find that the 

 Duke has for some years past had all his ferry 

 and fishing-boats built of larch. 



In mill-work, and especially in mill-axles 

 (where oak only used formerly to be em- 

 ployed), larch has been substituted with the 

 best effect. In cutting up an old decayed 

 mill-wheel, in 1818, those parts of the water- 

 cogs, &c, which had been repaired with larch 

 about twenty years before, though black on 

 the surface, on the hatchet being applied, were 

 found as sound and fresh as when put up. 



There is not a sufficient quantity of larch, 

 of fit growth, to bring that wood into general 

 use for common purposes ; but such as has 

 been cut and sold, has brought two shillings 

 per foot ; in some instances more. In the year 

 1812, the Duke of Athol sold a larch-tree, of 

 fifty years' growth, for twelve guineas ; and at 

 the same time he was offered twenty pounds 

 for another, which he declined cutting. In 

 1818, he cut twenty larch-trees from a dump 



