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§. 6.
Having now laid before the impartial reader the utility that would accrue to our fatherland as well by means of this American birchbark boat, if it came into general use, I would finally also briefly wish to mention that it is as easy to construct among us as there. Do we not have the same birch as they do in America, from which we can get the bark? Our pine and spruce roots are at least as serviceable for sewing the birchbark together as ever theirs are. Pitch and resin we have in abundance, and instead of their thuja we can use our spruce for strakes, ribs, thwarts and gunwale poles, which also with regard to its light weight and toughness appears to be most serviceable, or else some other sort of wood.
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