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the year 1797, has planted more than fix 
hundred acres with Gr, larch, and hard- 
wood. The thinnings of thele .planta- 
tions bring him more than one thouland 
pounds per annum, and they are every 
year increafing in value.” That fix hun- 
dred acres of Jand in the Highlands of 
Scotland thould, by planting, be in fives 
years enabled to retern the proprietor. 
one thoufand pounds per annum, is to me 
totally incomprehenfible, and, I believe, 
is {ach a profit as is totally unknown and 
unexpected by the firft planters in this 
kingdom. However, that we may not 
run inie error, or that it may be correét- 
ed if already made, your Correfpondent 
will pleafe to furnifh information on the 
following particulars. 
It will be, in the firft place, defirable to 
be informed.if he mean fandard Englifh 
acres. We mult afk alfo what is the na-. 
ture of the Jand, the depth of foil, whe- 
ther it lies flat or otherwiie, to or from 
the fun, whar are the trees planted, what 
the fize when planted, and number per 
acre, what courfe was adopted prepara- 
tory to planting, what the average yearly 
growth of the trees fince, when the firlt 
thinning-out took place, in what propor- 
tion to the whale, and what the kind, fize, 
and ufes of the trees fo thinned-out, with 
their fale-price per given meafure or quan- 
tity, and total annual produce per acre; 
if more than one thinning-out has taken 
piace ? the Ratement of the lat facts muit 
be repeated for each year that the planta- 
tions have been thinned-out. 
In fhort, I with to learn every poffible 
circumfance bearing any relation to a 
flatement fo interefting to the public in 
general, and in particular to one, like 
myfelf, attached to the fcience of plant- 
ing, though {in comparifen) confined in 
the pra&tice thereof, Your early infertion 
of this will oblige, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Joun H. MoceGripce. 
The Boyce, 8th Sept. 1803. 
EE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
y WAS much pleafed with reading in 
Ji the Monthly Magazine, propofals fer 
eftablifhing a Society for Scientific Infor- 
mation, which I have no doubt would be 
a fource of great advantage to the commu- 
nity at large; it might include other fub- 
jects of information, as biography, anti- 
quities, remarkable phenomena in the 
weather, accidents, new e'ections, and 
difcoveries of every kind worthy of no- 
tice, brfides thofe mentioned by your inge- 
nious Correfpondent, p. 10, of laf{ month. 
Seciety for Scientific Information. 
(O&. T; : 
|The allotment of each particular fei- 
ence to thofe counties where they are molt 
frequently to be found, is, I think, an ar=- 
rangement abfolutely neceflary, though 
net co the exciufion of any other phenome- 
na which may occur. 
The placing fuch a difri€t under the 
obfervation of each member, I cannot 
agree with, unlefs the number of members 
fhall be fo fmall as to oblige the Society 
to refort to that meafure; but I would 
have, in every town where there was a 
fufficient number of members, one ap- 
pointed from amongtt the reft, who fhouid 
be called a Correfpondent, and to whom, ~ 
if any member fhould have any thing to 
communicate to the Society, fuch commu- 
nication fhould be fent, and from him te 
one of the Committee at London. 
I perfectly agree with him refpe€ting 
the management of the Society by a com- 
mittee of members, one of whom fhould 
be appointed treafurer, which committee 
fhould be chofen by the Correfpondents, 
once a year, and that each Correfpondent 
fhould have a lift of the names and place 
of abode of ail the member's of the com- 
mittee, and further, that they fhould pub- 
lifh the proceedings of the Society once 2 _ 
quarter, or monthly, as fhall feem necef- 
fary, and a copy -be fent to each member, 
or (ubfcriber, gratis, and a certain number 
might be offcred for fale, to affift defray- 
ing the expences of the Inftitution. 
If any perfon of refpeétability has an_ 
inclination to render the community a 
hgnal and lafting fervice, he has an op- 
portunity of doing it, by coming forward 
to receive the names of tho'e who wifh to 
become members, provided they are fent 
free of poftage, &c. ; and by the number 
of the fubfcribers, he may form an efti- 
mate of the fub{cription neceffary for car- 
rying the fame into execution. 
If the above obfervations will afford 
any affifiance in eftablifhing this valuable 
Inftitution, my wifhes wiil be fully ac- 
complifhed. TyRo. 
Chelmsford, Sept. 13, 1803. 
= ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T this -important period, when the 
_ unprincipled ambition of a military 
defpot, after triumphing over the inde- 
pendence of fouthern Europe, has turned 
his ferccious troops into the North of 
Germany, and, devaftating the fertile 
fields of Hanover, threatens the political 
annihilation of the yet remaining Hanfe 
Towns—at a time, too, when the naval 
{uperiority of Britain is once more boldly 
aflerted 
