Forest for the purpose. The annexed table, carried
on to 1846, gives the result:--

A. transplanted at 16 years of age }
B. transplanted at 23 years of age } girth at 6 ft. from the ground.
C. not transplanted at all }

A. B. C.
Sep. 14, 1809 7.625 Inches. 7 Inches. 11.75 Inches.
Oct. 5, 1814 14.75 ,, 11 ,, 15.625 ,,
Oct. 20, 1820 23.825 ,, 19 ,, 19.825 ,,
,, 1826 32.125 ,, 27.75 ,, 23 ,,
,, 1830 40.5 ,, 35.75 ,, 26.5 ,,
,, 1836 48.75 ,, 39.5 ,, 30 ,,
,, 1840 53.25 ,, 42.5 ,, 32.5 ,,
,, 1846 60.5 ,, 47.75 ,, 36.5 ,,

More as a satisfaction to the Government before making the new
plantations, than as a guide to the commissioners, most of whom knew the
Forest intimately, Messrs. Driver were now directed to examine the
condition and situation of the woods and woodlands, and to report
thereon. They began by numbering the timber trees in succession, and had
reached 1,000, when the proceedings were put a stop to, on account of the
consumption of time and money which such an elaborate plan was found to
involve, and they briefly reported that the Forest seemed to contain
22,882 loads of oak timber, that only one third of the existing
enclosures were fully stocked, and that encroachments were rapidly
spreading.

On the 15th of September in the ensuing year, 1809, the first meeting of
the above-named commissioners was held at Newnham, when 2,000 acres in
various parts of the Forest were selected for planting, and such
directions given that the 240 acres of White Mead Park were actually
planted this season, just in time to afford Mr. Fordyce the satisfaction
of living to know that the good work of renewing the Forest with oak, in
accordance with his recommendation made twenty years before, was in fact
begun, for at this date his useful life was brought to a close.

Referring to the list of licences granted by the Crown this year, 1809,
it appears that the first effort was now made to prepare the slag and
cinders from the iron furnaces for the use of the Bristol bottle-glass
manufacture, by reducing them to powder in a stamping mill, one of which
was erected at Park End by Messrs. Kear, under a licence dated 23rd of
September. To this year also is to