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load, it fhould at the fatne time be remembered, 

 that the confumption of oak timber between the 

 years 1777 and 1783, fix years only, was more than 

 for the preceding 23 years. In the year 1783,1 

 have been informed there were 43 fail of the line, 

 and 52 forty-gun fhips building in the public and 

 private yards i befides ten Eaft-India fhips of 900 

 tons each. 



Article V. 



Oh Mowing Cabbage. 



To THE Secretary. 

 Dear Sir, 

 T^HE manner in which the gentlemen of your 

 "*" Society have always received thofe few arti- 

 cles of intelligence which it has been in my power 

 to communicate to them, is exprefled by you in 

 fuch terms, as to imprefs upon me the highcfl fenfe 

 of their candour, as well as of your polite and mofl 

 friendly difpofition towards me. I wifh I could 

 flatter myfelf, that I had ever been, or could yet be 

 deferving of their and your efleem. 



By a note inclofed in your lafl letter, you tell 



me that a gentleman had been with you, wifhing to 



know, whether the mowing Cabbage had been 



H 3 found 



