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That the experiment will fucceed In 

 young trees of any kind, is evident from 

 Georgic the 1. of Virgil^ where he fays, 



Continuo in Jilvis magna vi jiexa domatur 

 In buriniy et curvi formam accipit ulmus 

 aratri. 



I Ihould likewife have fpared mentioning 

 the fuccefs of fuch an experiment, were I 

 not prepared with an anfv/er, if afked, what 

 encouragement I could urge for the trouble 

 that muft be taken in fuch an enterprife : 

 And that is now found to be — If a tree Is 

 bowed at one end only, (tho' if at both the 

 better) it is fufficient to entitle the timber 

 merchant, at the Navy board (and the ori- 

 ginal proprietor has a right to make the like 

 account to him) to a hundred foot Meetings^ 

 as the phrafe is, for every bond fide^ eigh- 

 j ty ; being confequently a fifth more in value 

 than ftrait timber. There was indeed a 

 time, when, the allowance on that account 

 from the government was greater : But fince 

 the invention of crooking fhip timber by 

 fire 5 natural bent timber has been a falling 

 I commodity. The improvements in the Ship 



yards 



