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Excerpt from The Decay of Timber: And Methods of Preventing It Of railway or contiguous to them. As these became exhausted the sections back from the roads were tapped. The timber brought out cost more than that immediately on the line, until a branch was built into this new section, and then the cost fell again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.