7.

Whether of late years greater quantities of
Timber have not in consequence of this increased
facility of Carriage been felled in those parts
of the Country which were before inaccessible
than they will be able to continue permanently
to Supply?

8.

Whether the general Consumption of Oak
Timber for Building or other uses within
that County is increased or diminished?
And to what cause in your Opinion is
such increase or decrease to be imputed?

9.

Whether the price of Oak Timber for
Carpenter or Country uses is increased
within the last forty Years and in what
Proportion?

10.

Whether the improvement of Roads and
the Navigable Canals have not introduced
the use of Coal in parts of the Country in
which Wood was before generally used
for Fuel? and whether in such Parts,
the demand for Underwood, and the Value
of it have been increased or lesened?

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Whether in those parts of the Country
in which Underwood is more Valuable
in consequence of a Demand for Stop Poles,
or from other Causes, it has become the
practice of late Years more than formerly
to Cut down the great Timber Tress or
Account of the injury they do to the
Underwood?