xxvi.] STRINGY-BARK. 205 



The Stringy-bark is liable to the peculiar defect 

 noticed in the Jarrah, and described at p. 191. In a 

 specimen of this wood obtained in 1842 from "Cook's 

 tree " in a forest bordering on Adventure Bay, Van 

 Diemen's Land, there are several imperfect annual layers, 

 which are partially filled with a reddish resinous secre- 

 tion. It is believed that this specimen was cut from the 

 identical Stringy-bark tree which Captain Cook marked 

 to denote his visit to that place. When I saw it, the 

 tree was partially destroyed, and it is probable that 

 Cook's marks had long before disappeared. It bore on 

 the north side the letters 



LE 



GEO GR 

 a c 

 GA 

 and on the south side 



LAN 1802 

 LAFR = GA 



AP: L 

 v DE .... 



The Tewart, Jarrah, Kari, Iron-bark, Blue-gum, and 

 Stringy-bark trees, are among the noblest of the vege- 

 table products of Australia and Van Diemen's Land ; 

 but there are many others of nearly equal value. During 

 a visit to Auckland, New Zealand, 'in 1843, in H.M.S. 

 "Tortoise/' the Colonial Secretary of Van Diemen's 

 Land informed me by letter that he had sent a box 

 containing samples of forty woods the product of that 

 country ; but, unfortunately, it never reached me. 



The following table contains a list of these woods, 

 with the particulars of their growth, the soils favourable 

 to them, and the several uses for which they are most 

 suitable ; observing that the specimens were collected, 

 and the information respecting them given, by an in- 

 telligent sawyer who had been many years employed in 

 the colony. 



