TIMBER AND BOARD. 



QUOTATIONS of timber of various kinds are given. It is bought, as in 

 previous volumes, by the ton, the load, the hundred, and the foot, and is 

 oak, elm, beech, ash, mahogany, and red, white, or yellow deal, being in 

 most cases sawn. Sometimes it is bought ready made up in window sashes, 

 Ac. It is distinguished as Norway oak, and Arundel, Christiania, Peters- 

 burg, or Holmstrand deals. There are, again, several prices of wainscot. 



A large number of prices of coppice and underwood, generally by the 

 acre, are given ; on one occasion sleepers and pit timber appear, and 

 elsewhere spokes, posts, roomsteads, and cogs for the mill. 



The timber and wood prices of Cambridge are almost always of 

 sales. 



The sawn timber is described as planks, battens, wreck deals, clean 

 deals, single deals, whole deals, dram deals, double quarters, boards, stock 

 deals, sides, and the length in feet and the thickness in inches, rough or 

 clean, is often added. 



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