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where tlie business is somewhat complex, 

 and must, as in this instance, go through 

 the hands of Sawyers and Carpenters. — 

 Here were twelve sorts of wood to dis- 

 pose of, with not more than half of these 

 the workmen could be much acquainted. 

 If a log or a board of the others got 

 misplaced, in any part of the business, 

 it is difficult to conceive how it could 

 be put right again. We cannot possi- 

 bly admit a solitary experiment, thus 

 conducted, to contradict the evidence 

 resultino; from the most assiduous re- 

 search into the subject for several years ; 

 for if it be admitted, that by such means 

 the Larch had got into the place of some 

 other wood, (probably the Beech,) the 

 result as to both would be exactly 

 what might be expected, and the Larch 

 be restored to the credit and conse- 

 quence to which it is justly entitled. 



The late Duke of Bedford had an ex- 

 periment made somewhat similar, but 



