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TIMBER. 
A great variety of Timber, fit for every 
purpose of Ship Building, is found on 
Piiince or Wales Island, the neigh¬ 
bouring Shores, and Islands, belonging to 
the Honourable Company* Pkince or 
Wales Island possesses one very im¬ 
portant advantage over every other place 
in India, in our possession, being able to 
furnish Masts of any dimensions. In the 
course of the late War, 74 gun ships were 
provided with lower masts of one piece. 
On Pulo Dinding, seventy miles to the 
Southward, crooked timber of any size 
can be procured. 
A ship of 800 tons burthen, was lately 
launched there, built by Captain John 
Elliot, of Timber either found on the 
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Island, or on the opposite shore; the keel 
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