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appreciated woods for stick-making that are known. 
The wood is of fine, close grain, and of rich brown 
colour, mottled in a curious way with black rings. 
Extremely high prices have been paid for this wood 
at times, and owing to its scarcity it commands high 
rates at the present, when, perhaps, not so much in 
fashion. 
Rosewoods.—Besides the East Indian variety of this 
wood, which is mentioned in a former chapter, two 
further species are extracted from Brazil and Honduras 
respectively, and shipped to European markets. Others, 
besides, are found in various districts of Central America, 
but are only rarely seen. The Brazilian variety is the 
finest and the one which was chiefly employed when this 
wood was fashionable for the manufacture of furniture 
some forty or fifty years ago. It is usually shipped 
in rough pieces, more often in the form of a trunk, 
roughly cleared of sap and split down the centre. The 
wood is very hard, heavy, close-grained, and of a rich 
and very dark purplish brown ; the best is that shipped 
from Rio de Janeiro, being finely marked with black 
or very dark-brown stripes. Further wood of a similarly 
good character is also exported from Bahia. The 
Honduras wood is principally exported from British 
Honduras in short, round billets of about 10 in. 
to 15 in. in diameter.. This wood is almost as dense as 
the Brazilian variety, and is of nut-brown colour, streaked 
with black stripes. Both woods are much less used 
than formerly, there being very little demand for them 
from the cabinet trades, as the wood for that purpose 
is quite out of fashion ; it is also little used for piano case- 
making at the present time, but some amount, in the 
shape of veneer, is still consumed. 
Log Wocd.—An important dye-wood which is ex- 
tracted from most Central American districts, the 
