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feiture, there is nothing to which he cannot easily 
attend, or to a great extent transgress, nor much 
that can cause him apprehension. Mr. McTurk has well 
stated that no restrictions are placed on the wood-cutter 
as to size of timber or time of cutting ; and the oppor- 
tunity now arising from the present ventilation of the 
subject should not be allowed to pass without some good 
work being done in moving the Government to have 
well-considered measures of restriction added to the 
existing regulations on the subject. 
The wood-cutter, with the aid of Indians or bovianders 
searches the forests, and on rinding a suitable location, 
with the particular timber growing thereon for which 
there is a demand, makes a cast to find out the nearest 
creek, as the means of enabling him to convey his timber 
to the main river ; and it is from such creek or river that 
the facade is measured off by the land-surveyor, as the 
boundary of the grant. From paals there planted, it is 
compulsory to cut lines right round the boundaries of the 
grant ; and the land-surveyor plants his paals at each 
corner. Any timber cut beyond these paals belongs to 
the Crown and is subject to seizure by the Commissary. 
The wood-cutter, now supposed to be in lawful pos- 
session of his grant, prospects for the best paths to 
haul the timber to the creek. Having decided upon these, 
he sets his workmen to fell all the trees that may be in 
the way, and without reservation cuts down in any 
direction young trees of 5 or 6 inches diameter, as rollers 
to facilitate the hauling of the timber, and to make the 
path, ravines having often to be bridged with timber 
felled without reference to kind or age. 
