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plantations of oak timber was necessarily 
abandoned. 
The commoners' cattle and the wild beasts 
of the forests have now complete possession 
of those very spots which had been set apart 
for raising oak timber; and had that not 
been altogether the case, the persons who 
were entrusted with the protedtion of the 
new inclosures had found them extremely 
well calculated for raising and protedfing 
rabbits, by means of w'luch, before the fen- 
cing was abandoned, the young trees had been 
in a great measure stripped of their bark, and 
destroyed. 
The remainder of this forest is open, pro- 
ducing, in detached patches, beech and holly, 
but generally fern, ling, sedge, and some 
times crorse. 
O ‘ 
About seven years ago a bill was brought 
into Parliament by the Ministry, ('if we are 
corredfly informed) v>^ithoUt consulting the 
proprietors of estates, in respedl of which 
they arc possessed of rights of common, for 
