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i ONCE took down an elm, which to 

 all outward appearance, while ftanding, was 

 found inwardly as well as outwardly : But 

 when fall'n, or fell'd, it proved what wood- 

 wards call doted, and to be fit only for the 

 fire y altho' without the leaft cavities, or 

 hoUownefs : The fame on an exadl meafure- 

 ment, amounting to forty feet only excla- 

 five of the bark, I had the curiofity to 

 make the experiment, w^hat an exad: load 

 of any timber (computing forty feet to the 

 load) was intrinfically worth for the fire only : 

 I caufed thereupon the fame to be fawn in- 

 to Stackwood lengths, viz, one yard and 

 one inch, and inftantly riven into billets, 

 before any waft could be made by purloin- 

 ing : And the whole of it with the very 

 bark, (over which as I faid it was not mea- 

 fured) amounted to a fingle ftack only, of 

 eight feet in length and five in height. 

 Whereby it appears — That a ftack of fire- 

 wood, in fuch parts where it fells fi^r ten 

 Ihillings only 5 when delivered to the buyer 

 after the charge of Fellings — Riving — and 

 Carriage to any moderate diftance is de- 

 duced— amounts barely to two pence per 

 foot, and not to that, where the fize of 



ftackwood 



