The Locust, 



lings a-piece. The above trees from number three to 

 number seven, fourteen years old, cannot, at this moment, 

 be worth less than five shillings a-piece. Each of them 

 must have, at least, three feet of timber; and what timber 

 is there that anybody can buy for twenty-pence a foot ? 

 The worth then, of this weeding of the plantation w^ould 

 be, five hundred and fifteen pounds per acre at the end of 

 fourteen years. The six hunch'ed and eighty trees remain- 

 ing would be worth a great deal more than a pound a-piece, 

 at the end of another seven years. Thus an acre of land, 

 besides paying rent and taxes, would yield a profit of more 

 than a thousand pounds in twenty years. 



368. When I made my little plantations of 1809, I 

 planted, in a field, about six acres, partly of Locusts, partly 

 of Ash, and other trees. In consequence of Ellenborough, 

 Grose, Le Blanc, and Bayley sending me to prison in 

 1810, this plantation got smothered with weeds, and a 

 bailiff ploughed it up in 1811. A little piece of this plan- 

 tation was left, it happened to be of Jsh. The plants stood 

 at the rate of four thousand eight hundred and forty upon 

 an acre. The trees upon the piece which was not ploughed 

 up, are now worth, I should think, a couple of shillings 

 each ; and that is at the rate of four hundred and eighty- 

 four pounds an acre. So that there is nothing so very 'won- 

 derful in the calculation relative to the Locusts, the profits 

 of which, I have, indeed, greatly under-stated. 



369. In the year 1810, the Spring of that year, I sowed as 

 many Locust seeds as I thought would produce plants suf- 

 ficient for an hundred acres of land ; that is to say, two 

 hundred and seventy-two thousand. I intended to plant 

 these hundred acres in six distinct parcels of land, I having 

 then six children ; and I intended that each child should 



