TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES. [CHAP. XII. 



private trade are as well met as those of the royal navy, 

 nothing being required of the navy specification other 

 than is afforded by the ordinary growth of the tree. 



Thick-stuff and plank is supplied to the navy accord- 

 ing to the following specification : — 



* At 20 feet. 



All the thick-stuff and plank to be cut straight, or 

 nearly so, and of parallel thickness, and to be measured 

 for breadth at the middle, or half the length, taking in 

 half the wanes, provided the breadth, clear of sap, is 

 within two inches of the breadth at which it is to be 

 received; but no thick-stuff the breadth of which in 

 the middle is less than 11 inches or more than 18 inches, 

 and no plank of 4, 3}^, and 3 inches, less than 9 inches 

 or more than 15 inches, and none of 2yi and 2 inches 

 less than 8 or more than 1 5 inches, clear of sap at half 

 the length, is to be received. 



All the timber, thick-stuff, and plank to be fresh-cut, 

 good, sound, merchantable, well conditioned, and in 

 every respect fit for Her Majesty's service. 



