244 WOODLANDS. it, 



is fo fiat, that: fcarce as Ihip timber is reallj 

 become, the market is now overftockcd. 



I'he medium price of77;//>-timber, deli- 

 vered at the ports, is 3 1. to three guineas a 

 ton of forty feet. But the price varies with 

 the times, and ftili more according to th« 

 quality, that is the crookedness of the wood. 

 Oak timber, fit for the purpofe of the i&oo/?- 

 carpenier^ may now be bought for fourteen 

 pence a foot. 



Ash timber is chiefly worked np by the 

 carizvrigbts ; and by ccopers into butter- 

 firkins and dairy iitenfils. The price one 

 fh.liing to eightcenpence a foot in the flick. 



This fimilarity of price between afii and 

 of.k is owing to fcvcral caufcs : the prefent 

 want of demand for oak •, the prefent fcarcity 

 of aili ; and to the circumfiance of afii tim- 

 ber being, on the fpot, at its principal mar- 

 ket ; whereas oak requires to be carried 

 twenty miles before it can be placed in a fimi- 

 lar fituation. 



5. Bark. Oak bark is here fold to the 

 tanner ready-prepared for his \ife. The tim- 

 ber-merchant not only dries it in the wood, 



but 



