[Monkey Face]

Who wood have thought that lumber jacks wore togas?

;o]

‘Face

[elbook]

Like so much else WATER TRANSPORTATION was the enabling element. Basic Consumer goods were brought from Gaul and even India - it went by river and sea.

It is true that you can use up large timber - remember some of the Colonies in America were started to harvest timber for the British (whose forests were depleted) in the 1600s

[WashingtonSource]

"Who wood have thought?"

Methinks there's a lot of hilarity wrapped up in that question.