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apply to New England for the like in fliew, 

 but very unlike in fubftance-— This our navy 

 board knows, altho* for good reafons, no 

 proclamation is made of it to the Britijb 

 Oak proprietor. It is true there is but fpa- 

 ring ufe yet made of it in royal {hips, fav-^ 

 ing under water where bullets cannot come ; 

 yet therein it will do tolerably for channel 

 fervice or for the mediterranean : Not at all 

 for duration in the weft Indies^ as it is fo 

 fubjedt to the worm : But what multitudes 

 of private merchant men have been wholly 

 built of it at New England within thirty- 

 years paft, and been brought up the river, 

 and fold as merchandife ? Altho' a fhip of 

 Britijh growth of ten years reign, as it is 

 called, will outlaft the beft of them new^ 

 And as in thofe cafes beft, is beft cheap, 

 and as many of his Majefty's very refpedable 

 fubjedts lives are dependant thereon, the fame 

 is every way a national injury, 



But I have not room here to perfue the 

 confequences, and therefore proceed to fay, 

 that the wonder is not great, at the mon- 

 ftrous confumption of that truly Colojfean 

 and Pyramid high fpecies of Oaks, if we 

 ^pnfider how much the royal fleet and our 



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