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6. Dbooping Gum (J57. saligna). — A medium tim- 

 ber ; inferior fuel. One hundred feet. 



7. Blue Gum like the Flooded Gum (E. goni- 

 calyx). Used in ship-building ; is the best wood for 

 felloes in wheels ; very durable ; inferior fuel. One 

 hundred and fifty feet. 



8. Spotted Gum (E. maculata). — A very strong, 

 light, and elastic timber, very durable as girders or 

 beams ; the best wood for staves, and useful for sawn 

 timber in household carpentry ; first-class fuel for 

 domestic use. One hundred and twenty feet. 



9. Dark or Beoad-leaved Ieon-baek (K side- 

 ropMoia), — The most valuable wood for piles, girders, 

 railw3.y- sleepers, and for every purpose in which 

 strength and durability are required ; even shingles 

 of one fourth inch thickness have been known to last 

 sound on roofs for forty years. This species and the 

 two following are the strongest of all Australian tim- 

 bers, and are used for a greater number of purposes — 

 spokes, shafts, poles, frames, by wheelwrights j the 

 best telegraph-posts, fencing of all kinds, and none 

 are equal to it for cogs in mill- work. It is superior 

 to most as fuel for steam-engines, as it throws off 

 more heat, etc., etc. One hundred and fifty feet. 



10. Common Ieon-baek {U. paniculata). — For most 

 purposes equal to the last speeiesj is less inlocked and 

 is more easily split into shingles or palings; it is as last- 

 ing and as good fuel as other Iron-barks; the wood is 

 not so dark in color. One hundred and twenty feet. 



11. Small- LEAVED oe She Ieon-baek {E. micro- 

 phylla) (?). — The wood of this species is used for fenc- 

 ing and many purposes the same as the other Iron- 

 barks. But the wood being of a nature much more 



