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C. GEESTEMONDE. 



PITCH PINE, PINUS AUSTRALIS. 



The following quantities, which represent just a fifth of the 

 total timber imports into this port, are the only ones differentiated 

 in the market reports. All other timbers are classed together. 



D. KIEL.' 



BUILDING TIMBER. 



E. LOBECK.'^ 



PLANKS AND BOARDS. 



No details were given in the reports as to kind, so that the 

 figures are only an index that American timber is gradually being 

 imported. Of course these last figures with regard to pitch pine 

 and other soft woods by no means represent all that is brought, 

 as a great deal is sent up the Rhine to Mannheim and other 

 ports. 



' " Bericht der Handelskammer," 1896-1900. 

 ' Ibid., 1900. 



