This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...by a partial relaxation of the severe forest laws in regard to the preservation of game, the axe, and other means of destruction must have been freely applied, as it was deemed necessary, in the reign of his successor, to enact a law enjoining the replantation of forest-trees, and in the 13th of Elizabeth further ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...by a partial relaxation of the severe forest laws in regard to the preservation of game, the axe, and other means of destruction must have been freely applied, as it was deemed necessary, in the reign of his successor, to enact a law enjoining the replantation of forest-trees, and in the 13th of Elizabeth further enactments were required for the preservation of the royal woods. These suffered again most severely during the civil wars, and so great was the destruction of the Oak, during these unsettled times, that serious apprehensions of a failure of timber for the support of the navy, began to be entertained in the succeeding reigns; and in that of William the Third a statute was passed, empowering commissioners to enclose at once two thousand acres of the New Forest, and to add annually two hundred more for the space of twenty years; since then, the national woods have been more strictly looked after, and a breadth of land to the extent, we believe, of fifty thousand acres, is now planted, and as an improved system of management has been adopted, we may hope that it will to a certain extent answer the intentions proposed by the legislature. It is not, however, to the royal forests we are to look for the principal supply of our naval timber, but to the encouragement given to planting by the remuneration private proprietors reap from the cultivation of the Oak; and though its value may be lessened, as compared with what it produced during the period of the late war, when Oak bark had risen to an enormous price, in some years having amounted to fourteen, sixteen, and even eighteen pounds per ton, still the present price of Oak timber, for ship-building, and for which the demand seems annually increasing, is sufficiently encouraging, (low as now may be the co...
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