Which Sum of forty nine Pounds fifteen Shillings, the Value of one thousand Oaks of twenty Years Growth, is but a moderate Computation, if they were one with another to be bought or fold; which Price is about four Pounds ten Shillings per Hundred: If they were now to be cut down, it would be about the Money they would bring; but if they were to remain growing for ten Years longer, their Value in that ten Years would mount to that Height, that we fhall find Occafion to repent of having ever cropt an Oak of twenty Years; for from about the twentieth Dd 2 to to the thirtieth Year's Growth of Oaks, their Proportion of Increase every Year is very confiderable, as appears by the following Table. The twenty Years S Principal. Intereft of the faid Sum Now add per Ann. From this Calculation we may observe, that the first Year the thousand Oaks are worth one Pound, which is two Shillings per Hundred, or fomewhat more than a Farthing per Tree. The tenth Year the thoufand Oaks in a Grove may be valued at thirteen Pounds two Shillings and eight Pence, which is almost two Pence per Tree, or about one Pound fix Shile lings per Hundred. The twentieth Year the fame thousand Oaks will have increas'd in Value to the Sum of forty nine Pounds fifteen Shillings, which is fomewhat lefs than five Pounds per Hundred, or about twelve Pence per Tree. The thirtieth Years Growth of the fame thoufand Oaks amounts to the Value of one hundred and eighteen Pounds fifteen Shillings and nine Pence, which is about two Shillings and eight Pence per Tree, or near eleven Pounds thirteen Shillings, and fix Pence per Hundred. Dd 4 From |