THE LIBRARY. , , lOl 



Sub-Section 1. Preparation of Timber, Firewood, and CMrcoal. ' ' 



In 1877 there was published by Senor D. Euge'nio Pla y 

 Rave, Marcos de Maderas, &c., or Felled Timber for use in 

 Civil and Naval Structures, with the prices obtained for them, 

 and other forest products in the different provinces of Spain. 



After classifying the timber referred to as timber used 

 in shipbuilding, in architecture and engineering, in 

 carpentry and cabinet-making, and as round logs, logs 

 partially squared, square logs, and sawn timber and 

 stating what kinds of timber yielded by the forests of 

 Spain are used for the different purposes, and sold in the 

 different forms spoken of, and conditions determining 

 different sizes, and prices of these, he proceeds to give 

 tabulated statements of the linear and cubic measurement 

 of different kinds, the unit of measurement by which each 

 was then sold, and the prices obtained in the different 

 provinces in Spain, in Cuba, in Porto Rica, and the 

 Philippine Islands; also, tariffs settled by Government 

 for direction in the purchase of timber in the arsenals and 

 other public workshops in the kingdom ; and in an appendix 

 tabulated statements of corresponding longtitudinal and 

 specificial measurements, weights, measures of capacity, 

 liquid and dry, and designations of quantity used in sales 

 of firewood in the different countries of Europe. 



And in the Kevista de Monies, or Forestry Review, of 

 November, 1879, is given the first of a series of papers 

 on the specific gravity and density of woods of different 

 kinds. 



For firewood there is in Spain nothing like the demand 

 which there is in Central and Northern Europe. The climate 

 is different, and I saw there no such extensive preparation 

 and storage of this as I had seen elsewhere. For domestic 

 purposes there seemed to be used exclusively small wood, 

 such as might be yielded by branches and brushwood, and 

 charcoal seemed to me to be used by all who could afford 

 to make the purchase of this. 



