l8o 06lober 1748. 



mer have likewife much greater tubes fot* 

 the circulation of the fap than the latter. 

 And for this reafon they do not build foj 

 many fhips in Penfylvania, as they do 

 in New England, though more than irt 

 Virginia and Maryland; but Carolina 

 builds very few, and its merchants get all 

 their fhips from New England. Thofe 

 which are here made of the beft oak, hard- 

 ly are ferviceable above ten, or at moft 

 twelve years ; for then they are fo rotten, 

 that no body ventures to go to fea in them. 

 Many captains of fhips come over from 

 England to North- America, in order to get 

 fhips built. But moft of them choofe New 

 England, that being the mofl northerly 

 province -, and if they even come over in 

 fhips which are bound for Philadelphia, they 

 frequently on their arrival fet out from Pen- 

 Jylvania for New England. The Spaniards 

 in the Weji Indies are faid to build their 

 fhips of a peculiar fort of cedar, which 

 holds out againfl putrefaction and wet ; but 

 it is not to be met with on the continent 

 in the Englijh provinces. Here are above 

 nine different forts of oak, but not one of 

 them is comparable to the fingle fpecies we 

 have in Sweden, with regard to its good- 

 .nefs. And therefore a fliip of European 

 oak cofls a great deal more than one made 

 of American oak. Many 



