Excerpt from Creosoting, Process of Seely: Preservation of Timber From Decay and the Attacks of Marine Worms; European Reports; Thirty Years' Practical Experience in Railway and Marine Works Fortunately for us Americans, the European experi ence in the art of preserving wood is easily accessible we ought to avail Ourselves of it. Those especially who conscientiously desire to improve the art should study 1ts history, 1n order to commence the work where Others have left it. By ignoring it, there 13 risk of wasting energies in abandoned paths, and on projects which are utterly worth less. The 'american enterprise, hopefulness, and self confidence are essential elements of our prosperity, but are too apt to hurry us away from sight'of the experience of Others. It is a fact that, in the haste to meet the demand for a wood-preserving process, some of the crudest and most impracticable schemes have been gravely Offered to the American public. 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.