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hard that 'tis no eafie matter to drive a Nail Into it, fo 
that your Majefty has no need of giving your (elf the 
trouble of procuring the alteration or repeal of that A&, 
upon this account only, tho it may poffibly be defirablc 
(becaufe profitable to the Subje<9J upon many others. 
'Tis true indeed that the barking or peeling the Tree 
fianding, is fomewhat more troublefome, and therefore 
fomewhat more chargeable, than when they are proftrate 5 
and that 'tis likely People therefore have ufually fell'd 
their Timber, as well for Shipping as other ufes, in the 
Spring of the Year, for the fake of the more eafie and 
cheap barking it only, than any thing elfe. Tis true too, 
that Timber is harder to fell in Winter, it being now 
fo compaft and firm, that the Ax will not make fo great 
imperffion, as it doth in the Spring, which will alfo en- 
creafe the price of the felling fome (mall matter, and its 
iawing afterwards 3 but how inconfiderable thefe things 
are in comparifon of the great good your Majefty will 
reap by this manner of felling, (as is plain from what 
has been faid above, ) I need not acquaint your Majefty, 
it being (I think) felf evident. 
The greateft Objeftion, that I can forefee will be urged 
here in the South againft this praftfce, is, That if the 
Timber be not fell'd till Mid-winter or January^ where 
it grows in Gopfes and Woods, they cannot perhaps in- 
dole their young Springs fo foon as fome may imagine 
needful, and therefore will be backward to fell their 
Timber (Co growing) at that Seafon. 
To which I anfwer, Firft, That the Timber fo fell'd in 
the Wood or Copfes may be eafily carried off before the 
fecond Spring, and fo the prejudice fmall, and the firft 
it muft be there where ever it is fell'd: but fecondly, 
that which will quite remove this inconfiderable difficul- 
ty, is, That perhaps your Majefty may think it expedi- 
ent, that no Timber whatfoever growing in Woods or 
Copfes be at all bought into your Majefties Yards, for 
