Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Statements Relating to a Navy Yard in the Delaware, for the Construction and Equipment of Iron-Clad Steam-Ships of War, Proposed to Be Established at League Island
The interior, at the sources of the Susquehanna River, has an inexhaustible supply of white pine mast and spar timber, white pine plank stock and decking, all of the largest size. There is also an abundant supply of a variety of yellow pine, scarcely second to the Southern yellow pine in strength and durability, brought from the Susquehanna region; but less in size than the white pine.
The interior valleys also furnish the best long oak for keels, beams, long plank stock, &c., now known in the United States, as do the counties bordering on the Delaware, and parts of the States of Delaware and Maryland. This district is celebrated for its superior oak, great quantities being cut for export to England; and no other part of the United States within reach of tide water now yields oak of the requisite size for ship frames.
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