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<p n="953">January 1791</p>
<p n="954"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">5</note>
Weather in such Oaken Woods as are<lb></lb>
out at stated Periods in succession, it is<lb></lb>
Customary to leave Young Saplings, at<lb></lb>
each Cutting? and if so Whether they are<lb></lb>
generally Barked at the Second fall, and<lb></lb>
Cut down for Country Uses, on preserved for<lb></lb>
Timber?</p>
<p n="955"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">6th.</note>
Whether the improvement of Roads, and<lb></lb>
the Navigable Canals made during the<lb></lb>
last Thirty Years, have not, by reducing<lb></lb>
the Expence of Carriage, been the means of<lb></lb>
bringing large supplies of Timber to the<lb></lb>
Dock Yards, which could not otherwise<lb></lb>
have been brought there.?</p>
<p n="956"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">7</note>
Whether of late Years greater Quantities<lb></lb>
of Timber has not in consequence of this<lb></lb>
increased facility of Carriage been felled in<lb></lb>
those parts of the County, which were<lb></lb>
before inaccessible, than they will be able to<lb></lb>
continue permanently to supply?</p>
<p n="957"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">8</note>
Whether the general consumption of Oak<lb></lb>
Timber for Building on other uses within<lb></lb>
that County is increased or diminished?<lb></lb>
and to what cause in your Opinion, is<lb></lb>
such increase or decrease to be imputed?</p>
<p n="958"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">9</note>
Whether the Price of Oak Timber for<lb></lb>
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or County uses is increased<lb></lb>
within the last Forty Years and in what<lb></lb>
proportion?</p>
<p n="959"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">10</note>
Whether the improvement of Roads, and<lb></lb>
the Navigable Canals, have not introduced<lb></lb>
the use of Coal, in parts of the Country in<lb></lb>
which Wood was before generally used for<lb></lb>
Fuel, and whether in such parts the<lb></lb>
demand for Underwood, and the Value of<lb></lb>
it have been increased or lessened.</p>
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