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coopers, wheelwrights, and coach-mdkers. Beech, 

 as a quick grower, repays the planter's toil; it 

 thrives well on chalky hills, and may be trained ei- 

 ther to long boles for (hip-planking, or to branchy 

 crooks for mill-wheels j it is excellent in water- 

 works of all kinds, . for, where conftantly kept wet, 

 it is as durable as oak itfelf ; and the prefent fear- 

 city of that mod valuable timber, requires that we 

 ihould employ every fubftitute we can in its place. 

 The growers of oak fhould be moll particularly at- 

 tentive to the fituation and demand. In inland 

 countries, where carriage is a drawback, and pre- 

 vents a profitable communication with the fea, 

 timber, if thinned in due fcafon, cannot be drawn 

 up too fait. The houfe-carpenter, in lituations like 

 this, is the chief purchafer, and llrait lengths are 

 his delight. In the maritime counties, a large 

 crook in the bole of a tree doubles its value, and 

 admits it into a dock-yard, when but two-thirds 

 the contents of a ftrait one. Floor timbers, com- 

 pafs-pieces, knees, &c. are the bafis of naval ar- 

 chitedure, and cannot be difpenfed with s fuch, 

 when choice and large, carry in much inferior tim- 

 ber with them ; and without a due proportion of 

 fuch, no contrad is ever made by the Navy-board, 

 nor can the merchant exped payment for what he 

 has delivered, till the moll ufeful of thefc articles 

 B J have 



