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increased number of shipwrecks. The sub- 

 committee of Lloyd's addressed a letter to 

 the Lords of the Admiralty, who consulted 

 the officers of the principal dock yards, and 

 returned the following answer, signed, John 

 Barrow." 



''Department of the Surveyors of the Navy, 

 Admiralty, 29th October, 1835. — In obedience 

 to the directions contained in their lordships' 

 order of the fifth of June last, to see if I 

 could make any satisfactory report from the 

 several yards, respecting the durability of 

 oak timber, I beg to transmit, on the other 

 side, an abstract statement of the said profes- 

 sional officers' opinions thereon, which their 

 lordships will observe is very conflicting." 



