It is observ'd that oak will not easily glue to other wood; no not very well with its own kind; and some sorts will never cohere tolerably, as the box and horn-beam, tho' both hard woods; so nor service with cornell, &c.

Oak is excellent for wheel-spokes, pins and pegs for tyling, &c.

Mr.
Blith makes spars and small building-timber of oaks of eleven years growth, which is a prodigious advance, &c.

The smallest and streightest is best, discover'd by the upright tenor of the bark, as being the most proper for cleaving: The knottiest for water-works, piles, and the like, because 'twill drive best, and last longest; the crooked, yet firm, for knee-timber in shipping, millwheels, &c.

In a word, how absolutely necessary the oak is above all the trees of the forest in naval-architecture, &c.