likewise for the wheeler, joyner, for large screws, and upholster for sellyes, chairs, stools, bedsteads, &c.

for the bellows-maker, and husbandman his shovel and spade-graffs; floates for fishers nets instead of corks, is made of its bark; for fuel, billet, bavin and coal, tho' one of the least lasting: Not to omit even the very shavings for the fining of wines.

Peter Crescentius writes, that the ashes of beech, with proper mixture, is excellent to make glass with.

If the timber lie altogether under water, 'tis little inferior to elm, as I find it practised and asserted by shipwrights: Of old they made their _vasa vindemiatoria_ and _corbes messoriae_ (as we our pots for strawberries) with the rind of this beech, nay, and vessels to preserve wine in, and that curiously wrought cup which the shepherd in the Bucolicks wagers withal, was engraven by Alcimedon upon the bark of this tree: And an happy age it seems: ........No wars did men molest, When only beechen-bowls were in request.{78:1} Of the thin _lamina_ or scale of this wood (as our cutlers call it) are made scabards for swords, and band-boxes, superinduc'd with thin leather or paper, boxes for writings, hat-cases, and formerly book-covers.

I wonder we cannot split it our selves, but send into other countries for such trifles.