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Co., Timber Merchants, Liverpool, we learn that the total supply 



of West African "Mahogany" during 

 shipped from the following ports : 



was 16,965,137 ft., 



Feet. 



• • • 



Benin ... 



Axim 



Lagos 



Grand Bassam 

 Cape Lopez ... 

 Sekondi 

 Assinee 



Sapeli 



Gaboon 



Grand Lahou... 



Boutry... 



Half Assinee . . . 

 Osse 



Bakana 

 Sassandra 

 Ekoybo 

 Beyin ... 



Twin Rivers ... 

 Various other ports 



• • 



• • • 



• • • 



« • • 



• • • 



• • • 



3,889,801) 

 2,731,892 

 1,978,060 

 1,708,041) 

 1,600,441 

 1,524,151 

 1.279,621 



896,772 



514,659 



383,597 



134,654 



68,932 



63,239 



58,521 



35,682 

 29,540 



28,885 

 23,239 

 20,394 



Logs. 



6,488 

 4,088 

 3,269 



2,258 



3,470 



2,842 



1,262 



1,109 



1,023 



410 



205 



108 

 104 



58 

 52 

 61 

 40 

 42 

 62 



formerly 



this country as • African Oak' or 'African Teak' and used for 

 snip-building— Oldfieldia africana {Euphorhi<i,ceae\ an extremely 

 heavy, close-grained and durable timber— is at present hardly 

 known in the Liverpool timber-trade and is now seldom if ever 

 imported The wood at present being imported under the name 



African Oak is Lqphira alata {OchnaceaeX a hard and heavy 

 ■Z T* ' i 1S ? Rowing demand for Australian Blackwood, 

 A T 1 6S p?°T n £ , Tasmania as Lightwood, as a substitute for 



SSZ S" KESj!^ »<W (Juvlcmdeae). The 



umlnosae) 



Melanoxylo 



,!n™£ uT -/• V vaiueu in Australia for its hardness and 

 nS™7 ftJ 1S ex A tensivel y u ^d for cabinet-work, furniture and 

 Surlth!v e -; Am ° T ng S e 0ther interesting timbers noted 



New 7^1J' 1S r- T 6 JaVa J eak ' Tectona drandls {V erbenaceae) ; 

 PadT>uk S. Ch ; S °^ e fine P lanks of Austrian Ash ; African 

 shinned if 1 nt? T\ en l lC i CmS ( L *9u>ninosae\& timber generally 

 "reatlv in <\lZ» i ^ tW ° *£ 1S in wei gH but at present not 

 ftLSn t menCAn White 0ak is bei »g superseded by 



|r ^^^^^ f ^'^-A} -Ployed 



"Washiba 



wagons 



imported frnm Si^+;„iTn • 0T a r eddish-brown colour, 



fo/makin, ZlftJ™™?™ also »°ted. This wood is used 



demand for wheel-spokes. 



7 —'J 



Washiba 



commerce in this countrv b^t 11? t *£* been long kn ° Wn 1U 

 made by Kew to i™2 '♦* I lt lou eh efforts I iave been repeatedly 



yields the wood h?inn ? iCal 8 ° U, ' Ce of the tree whkh 

 In re^nt JZl * ??_ point **? not yet been satisfactory v settled. 



- ~- vr tu ,/ i urn j 



least doubtful. 



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