XXVI. | FARRAR. 195 
From the foregoing statements it will be seen that there 
is great diversity of opinion upon the merits of Jarrah 
timber, and time only will show whether if imported it will 
find favour with ship-builders and others in this country. 
Some three or four years since (about 1871) the 
Western Australia Timber Company were busily engaged 
in the forests preparing a large quantity of Jarrah for 
exportation. The company professes, I believe, to select 
only the best trees, and to cut them at the proper season; 
the deliveries should therefore be of the very best sort the 
country produces. I have earnestly looked for sample 
cargoes to arrive in the London Docks, but up to the 
present (1875) none of any importance have been reported. 
TABLE XCV.—JARRAUW (AUSTRALIA). 
Transverse Experiments. 
Deflections. Foal és Weight Weight 
it x d § 
Number | with the | Afterthe| At required | 'S2 [to required 
ofthe | apparatus| weight | the crisis | to break a | specific to break 
specimen. | weighing | was o each wo | gravity | * mare 
390 lbs. | removed. | breaking. | piece. 1000, anche 
Inches. Inch. Inches, Ibs. Ibs. 
I 2°85 “10 4°50 | 743 | 987 | 753 | 185°75 
2 3°25 15 4°50 638 1049 | 608} I59°50 
3 3°25 “15 5°00 661 977 | 677 | 65°25 
4 3°50 "15 5°00 | 661 | 1039 | 636 | 165-25 
5 3°15 "10, 4°50 426 | 1006] 722 | 181°50 
6 3°25 “15 4°75 685 tooz | 684 | 171°25 
Total .| 19°25 “80 28:25 | 4,114 | 6060 | 4080 |1028°50 
Average} 3°21 133 4°71 685°66] ro10 | 680 | 171°416 
Remarks.—Each piece broke short. 
now much sought after for railway sleepers and telegraph posts in India and 
the colonies. It is admirably adapted for dock gates, piles, and other 
purposes, and for keel-pieces, keelsons, and other heavy timber in ship- 
building. Vessels of considerable burthen are built entirely of this wood, 
the peculiar properties of which render copper sheathing unnecessary, 
althoug hthe sea-worm is most abundant in these waters.” 
