APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



Land Revenue Office, April 11 ^ 1789. 

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Being informed that you have disco- 

 vered a method of curing defects in growing trees 

 of all ages, which may have sustained damage from 

 any cause whatever, we wish to be favoured by you 

 with an answer to the following questions, rela- 

 tive to injuries done to the bark of Oak-trees, and 

 the means of preventing defects in the timber 

 arising from that cause ; viz, 



1. Supposing a piece of bark of five or six inches 

 square to be cut from the side of an Oak-tree of 

 any size, from twenty feet to one load or more, 

 so as to lay the wood bare, and that letters or 

 figures were burnt, or stamped with sharp instru- 

 ments, into solid wood, where the bark was 'so 

 taken off, and the tree lefl in that state so long as 



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