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means 'were to remove the principal 

 defect of English Fir Timber, namelj 

 KNOTTINESS, wearenot told ; neither has 

 he brought one single argument, or fact, 

 in support of his notable asaertion, that 

 " all wounds upon the bole, inflicted at any 

 " season, become, and eontinne to be, ble- 

 " mishes." 



As we shall have an opportunity of 

 examining the tendency of the very ex- 

 traordinary sort of management here re- 

 commended, we may pass it over for the 

 present, with generally remarking, that 

 such instructors are like Job's comfort- 

 el's ; finding us in a bad situation, they 

 console, by assuring us it is hopeless. 

 It is for the reader to judge how much 

 we benefit by such consolations. 



The above information, however, is 

 equally valuable with the author's discove- 

 ry of a new method of growing bends for 

 ship timber; which is, to cutoff the head 



