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mer have likewife much greater tubes fof 

 the circulation of the fap than the latter. 

 And for this reafon they do not build fo 

 many fhips in Penfyhania, as they do 

 in New England, though more than in 

 Virginia and Maryland -, but Carolina 

 builds very few, and its merchants get all 

 their fhips from New England. Thofe 

 which are here made of the beft oak, hard- 

 ly are ferviceable above ten, or at moft 

 twelve years ; for then they are fo rotten, 

 that no body ventures to go tofea in them. 

 Many captains of mips come over from 

 England to North-America, in order to get 

 mips built. But moft, of them choofe New 

 England, that being the moft northerly 

 province ; and if they even come over in 

 fhips which are bound for Philadelphia, they 

 frequently on their arrival ict out from Pen- 

 fyhania for New England. The Spaniards 

 in the Wefi Indies are faid to build their 

 fhips of a peculiar fort of cedar, which 

 holds out againft putrefaction and wet; but 

 it is not to be met with on the continent 

 in the Efiglifo provinces. Here are above 

 nine different forts of oak, but not one of 

 them is comparable to the fingle fpecies we 

 have in Sweden, with regard to its good- 

 nefs. And therefore a fhip of European 

 oak cofts a great deal more than one made 

 of American oak . Many 



