A Complete View of the British Customs; Containing the Rates of Merchandize, with the Total Net Duties to Be Paid Inwards, Outwards, and Coastwise, ... Calculated Tho the Twentieth Volume 2 - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728 edition. Excerpt: ...or, C whether j j Inch, square, and und. 8 Inch. Round-Wood--is about 5 or 6 Feet in Length. rCant 7 are 22 Feet and upwards in Length, with jBoomj" the Bark on. rs. J Small--are under 22 Feet in Length, with the C Bark on. Staves-are 30 Inches long. Care Pieces of Tew, about 5 Feet in Bow Length, with the Bark on; to make Bows. Firkin--1--are 20 Ihches long. Hogshead--are 30 Inches long. Kilderkin--are 26 Inches long. Pije are 5 6 Inches long. Timber FVand Oak, the Load to contain 50 Feet. Truimds- are rount 'ns 0ct about 2 or i F. in Length, ' r and about 14 Inch Thick. Q Single which are under 24 Feet ia Uffers are Balks Length, hew'd or squar'd, c Or, and are either Double--which are of 24 Feet in Length, C or upwards. Care Pieces of Oak Timber quarter'd, of 12 Feet in Wainscots-Length; out of which are cut the Wainscotboards of that Length. Wainscot-Boards, of all forts, are rated by the Inch or Foot, containing 12 Feet in Length, and 1 Inch in Thickness; and so in Proportion in any greater or lesser Length or Thickne& S a' The The Traders express the Contents of Wainscot-Boards by the Inch, by which they mean a Board 12 Feet in Length, and 1 Inch in Thickness, (that is, a solid Foot;) and if the Boards are of any other Lengths or Thicknesses, they reduce them to that Denomination. As if. s$ lh H, 2. i, &c. Inches. which is Inch thick on one Side, and % of aa Inch on the other; so that if the thickest Side of one such Board be clapped to the thinnest Side of another, they two will be equal to a Board of $ of an Inch on both Sides; the Half whereof for 1 Board is f; therefore they must be accounted half as much more as the of an. Inch. u I H I L T..-S 6 Feet, called...