TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE. 
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that finds its way to the European market from Canada 
and Virginia, being in general of the coarse-grain kind, or 
which has has been tapped for the turpentine, such not 
being used by the government, and by the merchant builders 
only from motives of economy. 
The average weight of a cubic foot of seasoned yellow- 
pine is from 46 to 48 pounds. It is very doubtful whether 
any of the best quality of southern pine is exported. 
In the Navy the beams and decks together with the 
plank between the ports are of yellow-pine, ( Pinus varia- 
bilis, Lambert,) also the lower-masts, yards and top-masts. 
The Yellow-Pine of New Jersey is of an excellent quality, 
but is not in sufficient quantities to form an article of expor- 
tation, it is used in New York and Pennsylvania. 
The only Northern pine used is the White Pine, and 
that for boards and such purposes ; in the merchant ships 
it is used for decks and single stick masts. 
From the opportunities which I have had of seeing the 
materials made use of in the European dock-yards, and 
from the specimens in my possession, I have reason to 
believe that our materials are in no way inferior to theirs, 
and our ships certainly last as long. 
