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lue and the quality of the timber, and might even 

 terminate in their entire ruin. * 



This very attentive and minute examination of 

 the several objects of their enquiry being followed 

 by the clearest conviction of the great public utility 

 which would result from a general application of 

 the remedy, the Commissioners were pleased to 

 make a representation of it to the Lords of His 

 Majesty's Treasury, under whose sanction it was 

 submitted to the consideration of the House of 

 Commons by Mr. Rose, on the 24th July, 1789: 

 and on his motion, an humble address was present- 

 ed by that honourable House to His Majesty, on 

 the subject, t 



In consequence of this Address, a Committee 

 of Members of both Houses of Parliament un- 

 dertook, at the instance of the Lords of the 



♦ Mr. Nichol, of Redbridge, Hants, Purveyor for Ports- 

 mouth Dock, informed me, that the average of the damaged 

 timber brought to that place was never less than one-fourth of 

 the total quantity of timber brought in annually ; and not un- 

 frequently it amounted to a third. If, however, the trees 

 that have received injuries were prepared, and the Composition 

 applied as directed in this Treatise, the cavities, or wounds, 

 would be filled up with new and sound wood. And if recent 

 wounds, occasioned by lopping, or breaking off branches, were 

 immediately dressed in a proper manner with the Composition, 

 the tree would sustain no injury ; as the wounds would be 

 healed and covered over with new and sound bark in a short; 

 space of time ; so that there would not be found a fopt of da- 

 niaged timber. 



f See No. IV. of the Appendix. 



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