Tasmanian Forests: their Botany and Economical 
Value. 
By Rey. Jurran E. Tentson-Woopns, F.G.S., F.LS., 
Hon. Mem. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., Victoria, Tasmania, Adelaide 
Philosophical Soc., &e., &e. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 5 June, 1878.] 
various districts. I had thus. an opportunity of becoming 
wee ss with all a inhabited portions, except the north-west 
and two or three places on the east coast. I sometimes resided 
for weeks together i in some localities, and on the south coast made 
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strictly oe eee but some have a more simple an 
popular aspect , for instance, are the notes made upon the 
forests an shat resources, an enture to think it may be 
worthy of a place in the Royal Society’ s proceedings if I 
before them what I have been able to note on this subject. Itis 
well known that Tasmania has in its timber one of its ve 8 ath 
industrial resources, and a more intimate knowledge of 
ppm are i. fail to be of service to the public 
Tas may be said generally to be a thickly timbered 
eotinitey. With the exception of the table-lands and the slopes 
between the main ranges and the sea, the soil is usually clothed 
with forest. But these forests are not the timber-producin 
forests of the islands. These are confined to a few localities, an 
are limited in extent. They are only found in the narrow dee 
gorges and gullies ap hea Be i 
tains. They do not appear to be confined to an Peay bas soil, 
though some of the best are found on modern (Certiary basaltic 
rocks ; neither are they confined to any particular nedeht bors 
the sea level. The fine timber near the Mill-house Fa lls grows 
in gullies 1,000 feet and more above the sea, while the forests on 
