ON 



PLANTING, &c. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 

 T. ADVANTAGES OF PLANTING. 



From the unrivalled extent of its commerce and 

 manufactures, as well as from its vast naval esta- 

 blishment, this country consumes an immense quan- 

 tity of timber. The value of that article annually 

 imported into Great Britain and Ireland, is said to 

 amount to no less a sum than L. 1,600,000 Sterling* 

 We have, at the same time, in Scotland, to say no- 

 thing of the other tv^^o kingdoms, upwards of twelve 

 millions of acres of waste land, completely useless 

 for agricultural purposes, and of extremely little va- 

 lue as pasturage, but of which two-thirds, at least, 



* That the statement here made, (namely, that the annual 

 import of foreign\imber amounts to £1,600,000), must fall far 

 below, instead of exceeding, the truth, the reader will be con- 



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