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get any considerable quantity of first quality is very 

 difficult and expensive, and scarcely any of it is to be had 

 without having to be hauled 30 or 40 English miles. The 

 value of first quality redwood here at present is 55s. per 

 load, free on board ; 2nd, 45s. ; 3rd class about 41s. per 

 load. The freights just then were very low, not more 

 than 15s. per load to the east coast of England. Large 

 quantities of redwood are now being sawn up by the 

 different establishments here into deck plank for the 

 English and French Governments. The prices paid by 

 the French Government are for 1st quality 21s. sterling 

 for 40 feet long, 3 inches thick, and 9 inches broad ; and 

 two-thirds that amount for 2nd quality. There must not 

 be any pith in those planks, and they must show heart- 

 wood the whole length, of at least 7 inches wide. 1 find 

 that the production of last winter does not exceed that of 

 the previous year. A considerable quantity of redwood is 

 also being prepared here, intended for the defences at 

 Southampton, England. The pieces are all to be 35 feet 

 long, 12 inches square, and to show a certain amount of 

 heartwood on all sides. The price to be paid is 65s. per 

 load, free on board a price with which the sellers seem 

 well satisfied. The timber purchased from the Prussian 

 Government in almost all cases is cut down and squared 

 at their expense. A portion of the timber is also got out 

 round the full length of the trees. It is then sold by 

 public auction the square timber by the foot, the round 

 timber by the piece. The latter timber is brought down 

 without being squared, and part of it shipped as spars. 

 The remainder is sawn and manufactured into different 

 descriptions of scantling.' 



In Britain we hear as much or more of Dantzic wheat 

 as of Dantzic timber. The wheat is not produced in 

 the vicinity of Dantzic, but is brought thither from a 

 great distance some of it from the south of Russia, and 

 the transport barges make a demand upon the product of 

 the forests in Lithuania and Poland, which is by no 



