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been destroyed by blasting about fifty years before, and the wreck had 

 been lying on the foreshore between high- and low-water mark, exposed 

 to the attacks of teredo ever since. The timber, cut in 1894, showed no 



Blue Gum {Ecl.-id'pti s Gja'kcj.ls) Plantations of the Xilgiris, India. 



sign of decay. Stone quotes A. Mathieu, Flore forestiere, as stating 

 " it is the least valuable of the Eucalypti," but this does not seem to be 

 borne out by the present record. Mr. Chas. Geddes of Fort Pirie prefers 



