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carpenters finding the wood too hard for their 

 tools, it was laid aside as useless. Soon after, 

 Mrs. Gibbons wanting a candle-box, the Doc- 

 tor called on his cabinet-maker (Wollaston, in 

 Long Acre) to make him one of some wood 

 that lay in his garden. Wollaston also com- 

 plained that it was too hard ; but the Doctor 

 insisted on having it done; and, when fin- 

 ished, it was so much liked, that the Doctor 

 ordered a bureau to be made of the same 

 wood, which was accordingly done; and the 

 fine colour, polish, &c. were so pleasing, that 

 he invited all his friends to see it. Among 

 them was the Duchess of Buckingham. Her 

 Grace begged some of the same wood of Dr. 

 Gibbons, and employed Wollaston to make 

 her a bureau also. On tfeis the fame of ma- 

 hogany and Mr. Wollaston was much raised ; 

 and furniture made of. this wood became ge- 

 neral. 



The timber of the walnut-tree is much 

 esteemed by aachnhuUd^,and also for mak- 

 ing gun-stocks. 



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