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in colour and in some ways resembles pencil cedar. It is 

 close grained and comparatively easy to work, and good 

 for surface or underground work either in or out of water. 

 Logs are to be got roughly squared up to 200 cubic feet. 

 Weight about 48 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Paroba Branca (Sapota gonocarpa) is also a useful wood, 

 but inferior to paroba vermelha, and the obtainable logs 

 are not so large. The wood is of yellowish colour or 

 nearly white, of close grain and easily worked. It is 

 stronger than teak and used on the Brazilian ironclads, 

 and is indeed one of the chief woods used in shipbuilding 

 in Brazil. 



Weight 50 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Aroeira, Aroeira do Sertao in Bahia (Astroniumurunduera), 

 a tawny coloured wood with red markings, one of the 

 heaviest timbers known. It stands variation of tempera- 

 ture and wet and dry well, is used for general construction, 

 and is valuable for all wearing surfaces such as brake 

 blocks. The logs are small. One of the first-class 

 sleeper woods of Bahia, where it has a life of sixteen 

 years. 



Weight 79 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Brauna Parda (Mdanoxylon brauna), called parda to dis- 

 tinguish it from Brauna Preta, which is nearly black and 

 not such a good timber, is a tawny or grey wood, exceed- 

 ingly strong, nearly three times as strong transversely as 

 pitch pine ; good for uprights and wall plates of framed 

 houses, stands wet and dry weather, and is much used for 

 timbering in mines. It can be had in logs 60 to 70ft. 

 long and up to 40 inches square. A first-class sleeper 

 wood. 



Weight about 66 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



