XXVI.] 



JARRAH. 



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From the foregoing statements it will be seen that there 

 is great diversity of opinion upon the merits of Jarrah 

 timber, and time only will show whether if imported it will 

 find favour with ship-builders and others in this country. 



Some three or four years since (about 1871) the 

 Western Australia Timber Company were busily engaged 

 in the forests preparing a large quantity of Jarrah for 

 exportation. The company professes, I believe, to select 

 only the best trees, and to cut them at the proper season ; 

 the deliveries should therefore be of the very best sort the 

 country produces. I have earnestly looked for sample 

 cargoes to arrive in the London Docks, but up to the 

 present (1875) none of any importance have been reported. 



TABLE XCV. JARRAH (AUSTRALIA). 

 Transverse Experiments. 



REMARKS. Each piece broke short. 



now much sought after for railway sleepers and telegraph posts in India and 

 the colonies. It is admirably adapted for dock gates, piles, and other 

 purposes, and for keel-pieces, keelsons, and other heavy timber in ship- 

 building. Vessels of considerable burthen are built entirely of this wood, 

 the peculiar properties of which render copper sheathing unnecessary, 

 althoug hthe sea- worm is most abundant in these waters." 



