A Letter, &c. to Lord Duncannon, And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty ...
A Letter, &c. to Lord Duncannon, And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty ...
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1 1 filled the retort oven with spent bark or tan, and found, that except the astringent principle or tanen, it had lost none Digitized by Google Particulars of my last experiment, by which I suc- ceeded in discovering the best method of seasoning timber — how I purified the tar and oil I employed ; like* wise of a machine 1 invented, to saturate the timbers, &c. of any ship under repair in dock, &c. * I shall at a proper season communicate to the Right Honorable Lord Duncannon, and the Lords C...ommissioners of His Majesty's Woods and Forests. + I have been informed that timber used formerly to be barked, in the County of Sussex, and allowed to remain two or three years before it was felled ; but that plan was found not to answer, as it was often liable to rend and crack from top to bottom, and to speedily decay. In some parts abroad, they sink their rafts of timber under water; and 1 have been told, that our government has adopted a plan of putting it under ground ; these are the only methods besides the common way of exposing it to the atmospheric fluids, that I am aware of, that have been in use since the time of Julius Caesar, who complained of his ships getting so soon rotten ; but cer- tainly there was greater care, or better means used formerly, than within these last fifty years.
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1 1 filled the retort oven with spent bark or tan, and found, that except the astringent principle or tanen, it had lost none Digitized by Google Particulars of my last experiment, by which I suc- ceeded in discovering the best method of seasoning timber — how I purified the tar and oil I employed ; like* wise of a machine 1 invented, to saturate the timbers, &c. of any ship under repair in dock, &c. * I shall at a proper season communicate to the Right Honorable Lord Duncannon, and the Lords C...ommissioners of His Majesty's Woods and Forests. + I have been informed that timber used formerly to be barked, in the County of Sussex, and allowed to remain two or three years before it was felled ; but that plan was found not to answer, as it was often liable to rend and crack from top to bottom, and to speedily decay. In some parts abroad, they sink their rafts of timber under water; and 1 have been told, that our government has adopted a plan of putting it under ground ; these are the only methods besides the common way of exposing it to the atmospheric fluids, that I am aware of, that have been in use since the time of Julius Caesar, who complained of his ships getting so soon rotten ; but cer- tainly there was greater care, or better means used formerly, than within these last fifty years.
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