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and its bole is three feet feven inches in circumfe- 

 rence, midway between the branches and the 

 ground. 



Mr. Miller recommends this timber as excellent 

 in water- works, but I can fay nothing of its merits 

 myfelf, having never tried it. When charred it 

 makes the beft coal for gunpowder. 



Ash. 



The growth of afh in foils adapted to its nature, 

 is litde inferior to that of elm or beech,* But there 

 is no timber whatfoever that differs more in its va- 

 lue than this does, according to its fituation. . The 

 produ6tions of dry and healthy ground (unim^ 

 paired by the farmer's bill-hook) will prove accept- 

 »ye to mod purchafers. Thofe of woods are ge- 

 nerally clean in the fhafr, free-cleft;, and more valu« 

 able than the former. The nearer the ground, the 

 tougher is the timber, the fhaft therefore is co- 

 veted, the britde branch rejedled.f 



If thefe treiss are removed when ten or twelve 

 feet high, their grain acquires a degree of tenacity 



♦ Vide p. 44^, Society's Mem. vol. 5. 



I The buyers of this timber accept the (haft and its continua- 

 tion, or beil bough 4 th? re lt> be th^v ever fp l^ge, go with the top, 



very 



