94 AMERICAN LUMBER IN FOREIGN MARKETS. 



JAPAN. 



NAGASAKI. 



NATIVE WOODS. 



Kiyaki, the hardest wood of Japan, resembling oak in fiber and capa- 

 ble of high polish, is used chiefly for fine work and for frames of ships. 

 It is becoming very scarce, the price within the past few years having 

 doubled. Hinoki, the finest kind of pine, is used in better class house 

 building, furniture, for lacquerware, and for building Shinto temples. 

 Sugi, fine cedar, principally used in house and shipbuilding. Aka 

 matsu and kuro inatsu, ordinary pines, decay rapidly under exposure 

 to the atmosphere; used in common work. Kashi no ki, a species of oak, 

 very scarce and small ; used only for finest work. Kuso no ki, camphor 

 wood; used for frames of ships, boxes, etc. Taki (bamboo), exists in 

 considerable quantities, and, as elsewhere, is considered the most use- 

 ful of woods. 



KINDS USED, AND IMPORTS. 



The wood most commonly used is pine. 



The annual imports of lumber are about as follows: From Oregon, 

 $30,000; from Philadelphia, $49.50; from India (teak), $86,686 j from 

 China, $10,000; total, $126,735.50. 



DUTIES AND PRICES. 



The duty on imported lumber is 5 per cent ad valorem. 

 The prices are as follows : 



The kata=14 feet long and 5 inches wide and thick; the yen=53i cento American; 100 sen=l yen. 

 *TJaed only for the extraction of its oil. None in the market. 



CLIMATE. 



At Nagasaki the thermometer ranges from 30 to 98 F., showing 

 marked differences from places in the same latitude in the United 



