The Commercial Classification of Colony Timbers. 69 
thousand square miles of the colony, the timber exporter need not be stuck 
for wood in which strength is required. Some of these apart from their strength 
have points of beauty also, which make them suitable for ornamental work 
and furniture. Thus Bullet-wood requires only a dark polish to make it a Rose- 
wood and some nicely grained Locust will pass as Mahogany. Waimara and 
Arimatto is still more like Rosewood, while Determa, Brown Silverballi, some 
Dullis, one of the woods known locally as white cedar and several others are 
all Mahoganies. Then for some of the uses of Birch some of the above—the 
silverballis for example—would be suitable, and to these a lot of sapwoods, 
such as Wooley, Longjohn, Ooloo and a dozen others similar in grain may be 
added for the purposes of the cheap furniture maker, whose demands are large 
and constant. For the purposes of Beech at least one wood I have met with 
is highly suitable in its appearance, resistance to shock, smoothness and ease 
of working. It was supplied to me under the name of Simarupa, but is a 
totally different wood which I have not yet been able to place. Packaballi, 
of which I have only a small specimen, seems also a Beech in quality as it 1s 
in appearance. For Satin-wood we have Coracororue and, for Satin Walnut, 
Saman and Hoobooball ; the finer grains of this timber would, however, take 
a place of its own, as it 1s among the most beautifil of the many lovely 
woods of Guiana. 
For Lignum-vite we have the Guiacum itself, another wood introduced to 
me as Mathaihiba of even more horny character than true Lignum-vite, and a 
third known as Calmacatl in density much the same as Guiacum. 
Of Oaks there are an abundance, beginning with Cautaballi and Itaballi 
and an unidentified wood brought me from a Georgetown boatbuilder’s yard, 
we have besides Kakeralli and Mora, sometimes called Guiana Oak, Wadaduri, 
Baramalli, which in boldness of silver grain is more like oak than any of them, 
while, for waggon planks, some of the above and Yakasauri might come 
into the list. “The best representative of Ash I have seen is wild calabash, 
which, when dressed, might deceive even an expert. Boxwood would be 
fairly well represented by Guava for turning purposes, but the baulks obtain- 
able would be small. 
The great demand for Yellow Pine might be met by some of the Melias, 
one or two of which for panels and wainscotting should, if they could be placed 
on the market at a reasonable price, answer exceedingly well. In the same 
category Oorilla or Bloodwood and some other light woods could be mar- 
keted as Guiana “ Deals.’ This question of cost is of first importance, and 
unless the method of averages is applied, it may appear that many of them 
would only be put on the European market at a loss. 
The price of Oak in the United Kingdom runs about 2s. 3d. per cubic foot 
for American and 2s. 5d. for English ; as I have already said mahoganies fetch 
from 5 cents to $2.40 per foot superficial: yellow pine of the best class is 
difficult to get and runs to 3 or 4 cents per foot superficial, while white 
deals, of a class superior to any New York lumber we see in the colony, 
sell about 2-2} cents. Greenheart is in demand at about 5s. per cubic foot 
