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Sandal-wood is of a ii£!;ht brown colour, with 

 brilliiiiit waves of a ivoklcn hue, not unlike the finest 

 Honduras mahogany. It is about the same size as 

 satin-wood. 



Amboyna-wood is now very much used in cabinet- 

 work. It is of various colours; and the shades are 

 generally small. It arrives in logs of two feet wide. 



Snakewood is extremely hard, of a deep red 

 colour, with black shades. It is principally used for 

 bordering and small work. 



Harewood something resembles satin-wood in the 

 arrangement of its waves, but its colour is different, 

 being of a light brown ground. 



Botany Bay Oak forms very beautiful furniture. 

 The ground is an uniform brown, with large dark 

 blotches. 



Ebony has been already descxibed. Of the several 

 cabinet-makers' woods bearing this name, there 

 are the African clitf ebony, which is black, with 

 a white spot ; and the spotted ebonj', a very beautiftd 

 wood, and extremely hard (more so than the common 

 ebony), of wliich the ground is black, with brown 

 and yellow spots. 



Acker-wood is the produce of a large tree, and is 

 of a cinnamon colour. Canary-wood is of a golden 

 yellow. Purple-wood, which has been lately intro- 

 duced, is of a purple colour, without veins. This 

 appears to be the produce of a thorn of tropical 

 countries, being only four inches wide. These three 

 woods have been little used in furniture, but have 

 been lately employed in mosaic floors, of which 

 there are two now constructing at Windsor Castle, 

 and at the Buckingham Palace. Bird's-eye Maple, 

 (its appearance is described in its name,) which has 

 also been so employed, is a narrow and long wood. 



Calamander wood. There is a very beautiful 

 wood of this name growing in the island of Ceylon, 

 which, when wrought into furniture, surpasses, we 



