APPENDIX 331 



in. in. in. in. in. in. in. in. in. in. 



li X 4 15X5 If X 4$ 1X4 | X 2i 



li X 4 If X 6 1 X 4| i X 4~ 



1J X 6 If X 9 1X5 



U X 7 If X 11 1 X 5$ 



li X 9 1X6 



1X7 ^ X 6 



1X9 



The Archangel and St. Petersburg goods are the wider sizes and 

 run mostly from 7 to 11 and 12 inches. 



As showing how in the most out of the way and unlikely localities 

 the timber merchant searches for his supplies, the author had gone 

 carefully through a report on the timber of the Hawaiian Islands 

 prepared by the United States Forestry Department in 1904, and 

 neither in that nor in any other work dealing with the place could he 

 find any likelihood of timber in any quantity from this locality being 

 put on the market ; yet, shortly afterwards, he saw in a trade journal 

 that a company had contracted to supply a large number of " Ohia " 

 sleepers per annum to an American railway company. Ohia-lehua 

 (M etrosideros polymorplia), which grows to a height of 100 ft. and 

 4 ft. diameter, produces a wood of reddish colour, and, although it 

 had been used for sleepers in the island, splits and warps so badly 

 that it was not generally considered fit for much else than fuel. Koa 

 (Acacia Jtoa), related botanically to the blackwood of Australia and 

 Tasmania (A. melanoxylori), is the one fairly abundant Hawaiian tree 

 which is valuable for its timber. It is a highly-prized cabinet wood, 

 a good deal used on the island, and exported to a small extent. The 

 colour varies through rich shades of red and brown ; the grain is fine 

 and indistinct. Curly koa is especially prized but very rare. 



