I. Reasons for paying greater attention to the propagation of Oak
Timber than has hitherto been manifested.

II. The insufficiency of the present laws to prevent the want or
scarcity of that commodity.

III. The testimony of fome of the most eminent timber merchants,
shipwrights, &c. proving not only the great decrease, but the
proportionate decrease for thirty or forty years last past, of the full
grown timber fit for the navy or merchants service, in the principal
timber counties throughout the kingdom.

IV. That the neglect of planting, if not immediately remedied, will
be the ruin of this kingdom.

V. The Author's opinion what methods would be most effectual to
prevent this calamity.

Humbly offered to his Majesty and the Parliament, as well as to all
Proprietors of land in Great-Britain.

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TO

Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Bart.

Member of Parliament for Liverpool, and Member of that truly noble Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactories, and Commerce.

WORTHY SIR,

IT is to you I address the following sheets,

intreating your patronage; and that you will be pleased to introduce the same to that honourable body of gentlemen, so eminently diftinguished for their truly patriotic zeal for the welfare of these kingdoms, The Society for encouraging arts, manufactories, and commerce, whose services to the public, in the annals of ages to come, will shine illustrious, and whose names will always be revered in the breast of every lover of liberty.

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