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On Naval Timber and Arboriculture / With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting

Chapter 43: NOTES TO THE APPENDIX.
By Patrick Matthew
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The work examines the selection, cultivation, and management of forest trees for shipbuilding and related arboriculture, combining practical guidance on forming planks and timbers, recognizing suitable British species, and techniques for pruning, nursery practice, planting, and preventing rot—especially in larch. It surveys dimensions and shapes needed for vessel construction, soil and drainage considerations, and methods to encourage desirable tree forms. The author also connects arboricultural practice to national maritime policy, arguing for trade reforms and better naval provisioning, and offers critical reviews of contemporary planting manuals and their recommendations.

NOTES TO THE APPENDIX.

  • 67. The very extended sway, the state of civilization considered, of the Tartar, was evidently the consequence of the great facility of communication from the plain open surface of the country, and the equestrian habits of the people.

  • 68. The habit of breed is apparent in many places of the world. Where a fine river washes the walls of some of the internal towns of France, scarce a boat is to be seen, except the long tract-boats employed in the conveyance of fire-wood—nobody thinks of sailing for pleasure. The Esquimaux, and the Red Indian of North America, inhabiting the same country, shew an entirely distinct habit of breed. The Black and the Copper-coloured native of the Australian Islands, are equally opposed in instinctive habit.

  • 69. The sea water from Flamborough-head, southward to the Straits of Dover, is generally discoloured with mud; and during every breeze takes up an addition from the bottom, which is an alluvium so unstable and loose, that no sea vegetation can hold in it. From not producing herbage, the general basis of animal life, few fishes or shells can find support in it.

FINIS.