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whole to an average, it will produce L.90 per acre 

 annually, which will be L.900 sterling of yearly 

 income in succession, without any expense of plant- 

 ing, excepting one person as forester, say at L^40 

 yearly; while the bark, &c. from the thinnings 

 will nearly pay his wages. If you take the locality 

 of these farms into consideration, where the whole 

 of the yearly produce of these barks can be dis- 

 posed of to the fishermen at a fourth more price 

 than to tanners ; it will bring in a very considera- 

 ble sum more than the above. If you consult the 

 Reports of the produce of the Duke of Montrose's 

 Coppice Woods, and many others, you will see 

 there I am rather, and that too considerably, under 

 than above the annual produce ; besides, the Duke 

 of Montrose and others pay, from many places of 

 their woods, twenty-five shillings per ton, to take 

 the barks to a shipping place ; whereas the barks 

 from the above farms can be shipped for two shil- 

 lings per ton.* As the soil of these farms will 

 carry timber trees to maturity, and from its beau- 

 tiful situation it could be rendered particularly con- 

 spicuous and interesting as a gentleman's family 

 residence, were a few acres of the wood-lands laid 

 off for a cottage and garden, and standing orna- 

 mental trees reared about it ; this would infinitely 

 beautify and immensely add to its value, even 50 

 per cent, more than the intrinsic value of the cot- 

 tage and trees, by making it so interesting in the 

 eyes of thousands of strangers passing and repass- 

 ing this estate by steam navigation ; also, a very 



* Locality to water carriage is of the greatest consequence in rearing 

 woods. 



