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All tlie above red gum timbers are used in general 
building work, railway sleepers, shipbuilding, and wood 
paving. 
White Stringy Bark (E. eugenoides) is one of the most 
durable of Australian timbers and does not split at the ends 
when exposed to the sun like most of the others. Much 
used for fencing and posts, though owing to large gum veins 
it does not make good sleepers, planking, or scantling ; it is 
proof to some extent against white ant. The same timber 
is found in Queensland. The colour is a warm brown, 
WooUybutt {_E. longifolia) is another timber of the jarrah 
class and colour ; somewhat like red ironbark in appearance, 
but deficient in strength and elasticity. It is used for 
house-building, fencing, and wheelwrights' work generally. 
The tree attains a height of 100 to 150 ft. and 3 to 5 ft. 
diameter. 
Weight about 63 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Turpentine {Syncarpia laimfolia), a tree which attains a 
height of 150 to 200 ft. and a diameter of 3 to 5 ft. Used 
for piles on rivers and harbours infested with the teredo, or 
" cobra," as it is called in Australia, often with the bark on ; 
this protection is, nevertheless, only temporary in any water 
where the sea worm is active.^ Quite recently Mr. H. D. 
Walsh, M.I.C.E., has stated that turpentine was the only 
Australian timber which resisted the teredo at all.^ Either 
in dry or wet state this timber is shunned by the white ants 
in most situations, and it will not readily burn. It quickly 
dulls the teeth of saws. The timber varies in colour from 
^ According to an article in the Railway Age for January 31st, 1908, 
turpentine withstands the sea worm in the Philippines better than 
creosoted oregon. 
2 The Engineer, October Uth, 1907. 
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