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yards is now likewife fuch, as to be well 

 able to make good work with ftrait, where 

 only knee timber was formerly ufed : Yet 

 do not fuch builders pretend, that what is 

 artificially crookt by fire, is equal in ftrength 

 to what is fo grown— I may call naturally, 

 this way. 



But no body will be fo hardy to fay 

 that our Ship- timber grows upon us, but it 

 muft be owned every fort of that kind grows 

 ftill fcarcer, more efpecially the moft defira- 

 ble knee timber : And whereas all poffible 

 means in this age, are fought after for the 

 improvement of landed eftates 5 Why fhould 

 not a pradice of this nature be revived a- 

 mong fuch as have the opportunity ? efpeci- 

 ally as no doubt great amendments may be 

 made to my theory 3 I might fay great en- 

 largements to my praftice thereon. 



I HAVE not in this article nor in fome 

 other before been intendedly writing to per^ 

 fons who ftand in need of annual returns of 

 their time, and lands y but fuch as wanting 

 neither ability, nor difpofition of their own 

 to many of the foregoing mathemata 5 yet 

 have not happily faU'n upon the right know- 

 ledge 



