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EXTRACT from Captain B. L. Sclater's letter, dated Eldoma, Mau 
Escarpment, British East Africa, April 9th, 1896, to. Mr. P. L. 
Sclater, F.R.§ 
* [ think 1 told y you about the Juniper forests on the top of the 
Kedony Escarpment. The forests to the north of Lake Naivasha 
are of the same Juniper, and we are building the bridge over the 
Morendal with it. 1t is also — n M and I have 
seen large trees 200 feet high, and a t 8 feet in diameter at 
the base. There is also another a ar ge demie more like 
a pine, which grows to a good size. There are plenty of young 
junipers here, but I have not yet been able to find cones of either 
sort. Please let me know if t they are known at Kew, as I can 
easily send — — ' of the wood and leaves. I will get 
the cones if Ic 
Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.L.S., Curator of the Botanic Station, 
Uganda, writes, January 20th, 1899 .— 
“The juniper is a most excellent timber, and will prove a 
source of revenue now that the railway is nearly up to the Nirobi 
forests. Sclater’s bridges are made of it, and they are as good as 
the day they were erected." 
Soudan Products. RM little is Ban at present as 
to the available resources of the Soudan. The following pre- 
liminary account appears in the "Board of rade Journal for July 
of the present year (pp. 30, 31) :— 
The Foreign Office net ers through H.M. Agent and 
Consul-General at Cai ort by Sir William Garstin, 
K.C.M.G., on the MD ond: of. which the following i8 
an extract 
ER very > posable source of future wealth to the Soudan lies in 
the = forests which line the banks of the Upper Blue Nile 
and extend, in an easterly direction, to the Abyssinian frontier. 
In the "Bahr-el- Ghazal Province also, particularly in the Bongo 
country, weis forest tracts exist. 
ony tree (Dalbergia —— is met with south 
of €— on the Blue Nile, and again in the vicinity of the 
Sobat K This tree does not , in these attddés, attain to a 
very ih. girth, 9 inches being apparently its maximum dia- 
eter. It must, however, be very common in these forests, a8 
most of the principal houses in Omdurman are roofed with it. 
The value of Acacia arabica, from which the white and red 
gum is obtained, is well known ; ; while the other kinds of 
acacia, such as Acacia nilotica (in Arabie, “ Sant”), are the chief 
source of the fuel supply. o 
mboo is met with in the ranges of hills to the south 
of Famaka, and, according to some, “mahogany ” is found in 
a good and Sree timber tree can 
