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Book III. lie, till the Remainder of the Close be sown in March with Oats,

to preserve it from hurt of Cattle, and potching the Ground : Whenthe Spring is of two Years Growth, draw part of it for Quick-fets jand when the rest of the Trees are of six Years Shoot, exhaust it ofmore, and leave not above forty of either Side, each Row five Tardsdistant, and here and there a Crab-jiock to graff on, and in the en-vironing Hedge (to be left thick) let the Trees stand four Yards asun-der ; which if forty-four were spared, will amount to above footthousand Trees : At twenty Years end, stock up two thousand of than;lop a thousand more every ten Years, and reserve the remaining thou-sand for Timber : Judge what this may be worth in a ihort Time,besides the Grafs, &c. which will grow the first six or seven Years,and the Benefit of Shelter for Sheep in ill Weather, when they can-not be folded ; and the Pafiure which will be had under the Trees,now at eleven Yards interval , by reason of the socking up thosetwo thousand we mentioned, excepting the Hedges ; and if in anyof these Places any considerable Waters fortune to lie in their B ot 'toms, Fowl would abundantly both breed and harbour there. Theseare admirable Directions for Park-lands, where Shelter and Food lSsource.

But even this Improvement yet does no way reach what I havemet withal in the most accurate, and no less laborious Calculation otCaptain Smith upon this very Topic ; where he demonstratively fsorts, that a thousand Acres of Land , planted at one Foot intervalin 72.01 Rows, taking up 51854401 Plants of Oak , A/h, Che fittit(or to be sown) taking up 172.84800 of each Sort, and fit to be trans'planted at three Years Period (if sot in good Ground ) are worthEighteen-pence the Hundred ; and there being 345696 Hundred,/&amounts to no less than 2.592.7 I. 4 s. besides the Chefnuts , of whichthere being 17x8480 /. ( valued at, and worth half a Crown th*Hundred ) they come to xi6o6 I. and the Total of all, to 4753Z '*

4 s.

This being made out, consider what an immense Sum ar eat Tf (e$would amount to, and in a large Quantity of Land ; soch as wereworthy a Royal Undertaking: It is computed, that at three Foot di'stance, the first Felling (that is, eight or nine Years after their plant'ing) would be worth in Hoops, Poles, Firing , &c. 55015 /. andthe second Fell, 2.8657 /• 19 s - 5 d. And the fourth (which may beabout thirty-two Years from their Semination) 90104 /. 17 s. and f°forward.

. Ft four Foot interval, and Felling, according to the same Propor-tion, you may likewise reckon ; and in eleven Years, with three YearsCrop of Wheat (fow’d at first between) it will amount to 34001/

9 4 d. and the next, very much more • in regard the Wood wiUspring up thicker : So as at the fifth Fell, the Account stands 1x699 -- 1 ‘

10 s. x d. f$c. and at the seventh (whoever lives to it) 2.00000 /- And,

if planted at wider Distance, viz. eighteen Foot (according to the Cap -

tain’s Method) at thirty or forty Years Growth, you may compute them

worth 191961 I. 6 s. and in seventy Years, xoiooi /. besides the three

Years Crop of Wheat ; in all 410311 /. 16 s. which at thirty-fix Fool

interval (accounted the utmost for Timber) takes up (for one thousand

Acres) 40401 Trees for the first hundred Years. Then, _

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