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giving the total number of days work in this species of labour of 
an Englishman as 187.0 and the ratio of his days work to that of a 
Chinaman as 5.34 to 3.07 or 100 to 57. 
Sawing . 
I am sorry I cannot ascertain directly in any of my books the 
number of square feet superficies that an Englishman can saw in a 
day, of various kinds of timber, as it would have afforded an 
excellent mode of comparison with the Chinese labour in this 
department. The following indirect mode may be substituted. 
Navier states that 29,000 units of work are required to saw a 
square foot of green oak planking.* A Chinaman working in Sin* 
* Tait'a Mechanics. 
