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not answer the purpose, except that it was barely sufficient to’ go 
around the bows, the other part being badly rent, and of course 
was rejected. I therefore went into the woods a second time, 
when the leaves were full grown and the bark would peel, and 
had two thrifty white oaks cut for the after pieces. These tim- 
bers were put in immediately, and so were the plank-sheers, 
without any seasoning whatever, and the room between the tim- 
ber above the air streak was filled with salt, which was supposed 
to be a —— against the dry rot. The workmanship was 
of the first order 
_ The vessel was launched, and completed in July, 1811. That 
autumn she went to sea, and after the declaration of the war of 
1812, she came to Middletown, and was laid up here until the 
peace of 1815. In that spring, when she was to be fitted out 
again, it was found that she must be repaired in her hull; and on 
opening her, it was perceived that the dry: sot hhind maddie mich dle 
struction among her timbers, that it became necessary to build 
her anew from her middle wale up. But the three quarter- 
timbers spoken of, which had been cut green, were sound, and 
appeared new, although their neighbors on each side of them, 
were destroyed by the disease ; and it is a remarkable fact, that 
the spikes, when pulled out of them, were bright, and appeared 
new, but those parts of them which came in contact with the 
outside planks, (which were made from timber cut in December, ) 
were badly oxidated, so much so, that they were reduced in size 
nearly one quarter. The plank-sheers forward, which, it will be 
remembered, were cut in December, were destroyed by the dis- 
ease, but the after pieces were sound and dry, and the under 
sides appeared like new timber seasoned in the shade ; and what 
is remarkable as to them is, that although some of the timbers on 
which they rested were so decayed that they might be picked to 
pieces, yet there was not the least appearance of it on them, 
which shows, that enna surrounded by I igs were 
even at this day, thoaght tet the progress of the disease. 
