$00: On the Covfinem 
one pound ten shillings per hundred, fir 
timber at one shilling and three-pence 
per foot. } 
I particularly recommend the planting 
ef poplars by te sides of streams from 
the rills to the river, if the bottom soil is 
not clay. For rapidity of growth, in soils 
adapted to it, no tree is so profitable; 
the boards make good chamber floors, 
particularly for servants rooms, as they 
are almost proof against fire. I have an 
account by me of the produce of boards, 
from two poplar trees planted by. my 
grandfather, of above forty-five years 
growth, which would have sold at this 
- time for twenty-two pounds. 
In confirmation of what I have said 
before, respecting the growth of timber 
on the slopes of dingles, and carefully 
nursing up the young saplings, that are 
self-erow ers, In coppices; there is in view 
of the place whence [| write, forming a 
side of the narrow, but romantic vale of 
Habberley, a wood, called the Vessens, 
the property of the Earl of Tankerville, 
consisting of about two hundred and fifty 
acres, in which is regularly scattered, 
young timber, finely grown, that in thirty 
or forty years will be of the largest size, 
and best quality; their value very great, 
five hundred marked for sale. 
Higher up the vale, which cantracts 
and assumes a different form, issome oak 
timber of Lord Berwick’s, not inferior to 
that below ; his lordship’s property her 
is said to be four thousand acres, in which 
plantations may be raised of a variety of 
trees, and of great extent. I can only 
presume to, say, that 11 I were a young 
man possessing it, I would pursue what 
his lordship has just begun, by planting 
or rearing wide spreading woods. 
Adjoining to this property is an estate 
of Mr. Lyster’s, of Rowton, at Kinnerton, 
perhaps ‘not much inferior in quantity a 
Lord Bernsik’s, at Gaiten; however, 
here is a large field for improvement, by 
planting, and the timber has been much 
stripped from Mr. Lyster’s estates. 
Next, and adjoining, is Mr. More’s, in 
Linley, ‘who passed a long hfe in the em- 
ployment of building a large and excel- 
lent house, raising the plantations I have 
-before mentioned, which are so orna- 
mental to the country, and profitable to 
the present Mr. More; and shew, in the 
most convincing manner, what may be 
done, in the proportion, T have menti- 
oned, ‘and many others in this part of 
Shropshire. 
From my early days, it w as a favourite 
idea, that oft employed my thoughts, to 
ent of Dogs, and Horses. 
[May 1, 
have purchased some such tract, and to 
have planted largely. Circumstances 
have arisen that prevented my carrying it 
into execution. J have done somewhat 
towards it, and in some degree. preserved 
what my ancestors have raised. Alas! 
one favourite grove of oaks was sacri- 
ficed, which I then thought prudence re- 
quired me to part with; but in this, as in 
other instances, I was mistaken. 
Your’s, &c. 
Shropshire, 1807. E. Harris. 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Wieeeane: 
SIR, 
ITHOUT attempting to fe a 
the principle of confining song- 
birds in cages, I may perhaps be perimit- 
ted to ask Dr. Lettsom, whether his ob- 
jections will not also attach to the con- 
finement of the yard- -deg, who is chained 
to a small house in which he can scarcely 
turn himself, and whose miserable how- 
lings testify, the pain and uneasiness he 
a ae from the want of exercise, 
ud the deprivation of liberty? 
Will they not likewise attach to - 
confinement of that noble animal, t 
horse, who is shut up in a hot nett ; 
stable, wrapped in cloths to wender the 
heat still more insupportable, and tyed 
by the head to the manger of :a stall, in 
which there is but just room to lay him-. 
self along; when, oppressed and fatigued 
by standing so long in aa erect posture, 
he attempts to obtain some relief by re- 
cumbency? In either.of these cases, a 
natural desire of ranging at large must 
exist, as ardently asin the song bird, and 
the places of their conlinement arg more 
contracted in proportion to the size of the 
animals, than in the cage of the feathered 
prisoner. Whether Dr. Lettsom thinks 
that the confinement of the dog and the 
horse is excusable, whilst he condemns 
the confinement of the song bird, is not 
for me te determine. -Perhaps he will 
have the goodness in some future num- 
ber of your publication, to favour the 
world with his opinion in reply to the 
cases above cited. Your's, &c.: 
Woburn, April 10, 1808. Veritas. 
——=S Ta 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
i ie reply to the query of Mr. C. Wesley | 
1 your last concerming the quantity 
of Amraimides, allow me to observe, that 
the vowel e in patronymics being com- | 
mon, and words ending in-m, s short by. . 
the rule of prosody, I conceive that the 4 
in Amram may be therefore, at the pleas 
’ sure 
