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ftackwood is cuftomarily fourteen feet in 

 length, and three feet and two inches in 

 height. 



This 1 think one ftrong inducement to 

 the proprietor to ufe his art to employ the 

 fap of an Oak, to the greater encreafe of 

 bodily lengths of timber, whereby the heads 

 of fuch will be in their content the lefs, 

 and confequently the tree of more value. 



Nor are clear bodily lengths alone, by 

 the means propofed • but all, that lies in 

 our power, by art, to advance the value of 

 the Oak, when grown to perfedion : As 

 there remains yet another point of education 

 of it when young, coefficient to that end 5 

 and that is, by caufing it to grow bending 

 or ct'ooked^ for the ufe of the Shipwright~ 

 or on occalion the Architedt— 



M.v.^arringtony In a treatife of his pub^ 

 lifhed many years fince, fpeaks of an habi- 

 tual pradlice about Oldenburg in Germany of 

 that kind ; and that Oaks fo difciplined and 

 fit to be converted to their proper ufes, 

 \vere tranfported thence to the neareft rivers 

 and floated down to Holland : But has not 



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