FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 20; 



"water, and is used in the construction of vessels, &c. 

 In support of past facts as regards the export trade 

 that was carried on from the Gambia, and of my 

 assertion that the same field of supply now presents 

 itself, I will only refer to the list (pp. 206-7) of the 

 representative exhibits that were sent from those 

 Settlements to the Forestry Exhibition, 1884. 



Detailed particulars are afforded of some thirty- 

 two different specimens of woods, some of -which are 

 very fine indeed, and should commend themselves to 

 the nursing and protecting care of wood dealers and 

 cabinet-makers. The prices given may seem high, 

 but I can advance that the finest of the woods, 

 such as mahogany, rosewood, &c., could be, with 

 inducement and encouragement, purchased at the 

 Gambia at 2d. per foot. Dye-woods will be found 

 touched upon briefly in a separate chapter of this 

 work. r 



Although I give separately, for locality sake, the 

 foregoing, the Gambia Flora may be viewed as iden- 

 tical with that of Senegambia, on which Messrs. 

 Guillemin, Perrottet and Richard wrote, in 1830-1833, 

 their ' Florae Senegambise Tentamen.' 



Of course steam may have interfered somewhat 

 with the development, or rather thrown back the 

 immediate necessity for the export development, in 

 an extended \ sense, of the Gambia timber-floating 

 industry ; yet, so as to remove any wrong impression 

 my remarks might without further explanation give 



