STRUCTURE OF VESSELS. 



To procure a sufficiency of excellent crooks, every 

 person who lias the charge of young plantations of 

 timber intended for naval purposes, ought, in the 

 more exposed situations not favourable to the growth 

 of plank timber, or timber for bending, when the 

 plants are from 8 to 15 feet high, to mark out the 

 most healthy, suitably formed plants, sufficiently 

 close to fill the ground when of the proper size, say 

 6 yards apart, and to bend these, as the under 

 figures will illustrate. The dotted portion is the 

 growth after being bent. 



