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in colour and in some ways resembles pencil cedar. It is 
close grained and comparatively easy to work, and good 
for surface or underground work either in or out of water. 
Logs are to be got roughly squared up to 200 cubic feet. 
Weight about 48 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Paroba Branca {Sapota gonocarpa) is also a useful wood, 
but inferior to paroba vermelha, and the obtainable logs 
are not so large. The wood is of yellowish colour or 
nearly white, of close grain and easily worked. It is 
stronger than teak and used on the Brazilian ironclads, 
and is indeed one of the chief woods used in shipbuilding 
in Brazil. 
Weight 50 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Aroeira, Aroeira do Sertao in Bahia {Astroniumurunduera), 
a tawny coloured wood with red markings, one of the 
heaviest timbers known. It stands variation of tempera- 
ture and wet and dry well, is used for general construction, 
and is valuable for all wearing surfaces such as brake 
blocks. The logs are small. One of the first-class 
sleeper woods of Bahia, where it has a life of sixteen 
years. 
Weight 79 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Brauna Parda {Melanoxylon hrauna), called parda to dis- 
tinguish it from Brauna Preta, which is nearly black and 
not such a good timber, is a tawny or grey wood, exceed- 
ingly strong, nearly three times as strong transversely as 
pitch pine ; good for uprights and wall plates of framed 
houses, stands wet and dry weather, and is much used for 
timbering in mines. It can be had in logs 60 to 70 ft. 
long and up to 40 inches square. A first-class sleeper 
wood. 
Weight about 66 lbs. per cubic foot. 
