Note 12 — PART II. BRITISH FOREST TREES USED AS NAVAL TIMBER.
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Some nautical or technical terms have unavoidably crept into this work; we shall not presume to think any explanation necessary: Britannia would blush jusqu’au blanc des yeux, to the tips of the fingers and toes, did she think it were doubted that any of her sons, not doomed to unceasing mechanical labour, were unacquainted with these.