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TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES. [CHAP. 



considered one of the best woods for working that the 

 carpenter can take in hand. 



There are many experiments on the strength of the 

 Kauri Pine, and the first to be noticed are on specimens 

 taken from the butt-end of a log that 

 was fully 60 feet in length and 22 

 inches square. A plank 2 inches thick 

 having been taken out of the middle, 

 it was cut to produce six pieces of 

 2 x 2 x 84 inches, four upon one side 

 FIG - 33- of the centre or pith and two upon the 



other (Fig. 33). The centre piece was excluded from 

 the test as being of too weak a nature to bear com- 

 parison with the rest of the wood. 



TABLE CLX. KAURI (NEW ZEALAND). 



Transverse Experiments. 



REMARKS. These specimens broke with a moderate length of fracture. 



E = 790810. S = 2141. 



The table shows that transversely the strongest 

 point was much nearer to the more recently-formed con- 



