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( 230 ) at Port Jackson, have been brought, which, it is the opinion of shipwrights, would be very valuable in ship-building: one kind in particular cannot be known from the beech. learned writer, "Projects thought desperate in days of ignorance have, in more enlightened times, been brought to a successful issue;" and " individuals have often failed in their attempts for want of public encouragement, and public enterprizes from want of concurrence among individuals."