XIII. 



EXPERIMENTS 



ON THE 



STRENGTH AND ELASTICITY 



OF 



INDIAN WOODS. 



By captain PL C. BAKER, 



Bengal Artillery, 



AGENT FOR IKON SUSPENSION BRIDGES, &c 



The experiments detailed in the following Table were made on differ- 

 ent occasions, to determine the strength of various specimens of Wood 

 supplied to me by the Honorable Company's Timber Agents, and by 

 private individuals, who were interested in the subject, and who had 

 opportunities of obtaining foreign Woods in tiieir visits to the Tennasse- 

 rim Coast, Arracan— the Morung forests, Orissa, &c. A short account of 

 someof my original experiments, was published in the Gleanings in Science, 

 vol. I, pages P23 and -I'M ; but as many of tlie Woods then submitted to 

 trial, were hardly in aseasoned state, I liavc liu liidcd in tlu' i)rc -(Mit Tal)lc 

 only the later experiments upon ihciu wlu u tlioy were perfectly seasoned, 

 and when therefore more dci)cudciicc cuuld be i)lai cd on ihc rcsuli^. 



