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pense and submit to the annoyance of more frequent renewals for 

 the sake of the quiet, and wood is certainly the least noisy of all 

 known pavements. 



Paris had at the close of 1893 more wood than asphalt, the areas 

 of pavements of different kinds being as follows: 



Stone .... 7,541,258 sq. yds., 71.5 per cent. 



Wood 886,286 " 8.4 



Asphalt 402,394 " 8.8 " 



Gravel or macaduni 1,724,632 " 16.8 



Berlin also has some wood pavements, but asphalt seems more 

 popular, though by far the greatest area is still of stone pavements. 



The most durable wood pavements are those made of the hard 

 woods of Australia, which are especially adapted to this purpose. 





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Heavy Traffic for Sixteen Years. 



They are mostly of the eucalyptus family, the red gum, blue gum, 

 black butt, tallow-wood, and mahogany, Mr. George W. Bell, in 

 a pamphlet published in 1895, gives some remarkable statistics as 

 to the durability of these pavements. He cites the case of George 

 Street, in Sydney, which sustains a very heavy traffic, and on which 



