26 PRESENT AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF 



sions in Norfolk Bay, and also at Port Esperance, 

 where there are at present several hundred logs lying 

 ready to be sent off in the ships now on their way to 

 load them. 



The following slides, so admirably prepared by Mr. 

 Beattie, will give you a fair idea of our work in the 

 bush : — 



ISo. 2. Tree-felling. 



5, 3. Squaring logs in bush. 



,, 4. Squared log, with butt. (Axemen.) 



„ 5. Bullocks bringing piles (driver and animals). 



„ 6. Ditto at stage, ditto. 



J, 7. Tramming piles to beach (behind horses). 



„ 8. Ditto (before horses). 



„ 9. Piles, Norfolk Bay, ready shipment. 



„ 10. Ditto. 



„ 11. Ditto. 



„ 12. Dinner-time, bush. 



„ 13. A bush road. 



„ 14. A steam hauler (instead of bullocks). 



„ 15. Hauling logs through bush. 



You have also another species of eucalyptus growing 

 in the same, or even larger, quantities, and of equal 

 length and dimensions, I mean the Stringy-bark (Euca- 

 lyptus obliqua). When cut it is often difficult to dis- 

 tinguish it from blue-gum, except in the specific gravity, 

 which is, I believe, generally about 5 lbs. less. When 

 grown in the same soil where the best blue-gum is found, 

 on the slopes of your gullies, with the roots imbedded 

 among rocks and stones, there is little to chose between 

 either, both being excellent. Personally, for this 

 Admiralty work, I prefer the blue-gum, not alone for 

 its greater specific gravity and consequent strength 

 and durability, but also for a most important point, 

 that is, its greater freedom from bad knots. I have 

 found a much more considerable number of faulty and 

 rotten knots in Stringy-bark than I have ever met with 

 in Blue-gum. I can assure you that even one rotten 

 knot in one of these piles is sometimes a most serious 

 matter when it comes to driving them ten to twelve feet 

 into the ground. I have even seen a log of Stringy- 



