a thin kind of fir-planks, of great use in carpentry: they are formed by sawing the trunk of a tree into a great many longitudinal divisions, of more or less thickness, according to the purposes they are intended to serve.

Deals are rendered much harder, by throwing them into salt water as soon as they are sawed, keeping them there three or four days, and afterwards drying them in the air or sun; but neither this nor any other method yet known, will preserve them from shrinking.

Deals called Burgendorp deals, the hundred containing six score, pay on importation 3l. 8s. 8½d. and draw back 3l. 3s. the rate 12l. Meabro deals, six score, pay 1l. 2s. 10½d. and draw back 1l. 1s. the rate 4l. Norway deals, six score, pay 1l. 8s. 7½d. and draw back 1l. 6s. 3d. the rate 5l. Spruce deals, six score, pay 4l. 5s. 10½d. and draw back 3l. 18s. 9d. the rate 15l. Deals from Russia, and all other countries not particularly rated, exceeding twenty feet in length, pay 4l. 5s. 10½d. and draw back 3l. 18s. 9d. the rate 15l. Deals from Sweden, or any other country, of twenty feet in length or under, not otherwise rated, the 120, pay 1l. 8s. 7½d. and draw back 1l. 6s. 3d. the rate 5l.

in geography, a port-town of the county of Kent, between which and the Goodwin-sands, the shipping usually rides in the Downs, in going out or coming home: it is about sixty-seven miles eastward of London: E. long. 1° 30', and N. lat. 51° 16'.