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(E. patens). The timber is something like EngHsh oak in 
appearance when properly seasoned, and is used for ordinary 
building material and a good deal for palings, shingles, 
rails and mining timber. 
Silver-top or Bastard Ironbark {E. sieheriana) , also known 
as Gippsland momitain ash and sometimes as white iron- 
wood, is also called mountain ash in New South Wales and 
ironbark in Tasmania, There is another variety known as 
woollybutt. Neither is durable in contact with the ground, 
but both furnish building material of fair quality. 
The Cypress Pine {Callitris verrucosa) is the same as that 
of New South Wales, as it comes from the Murray Eiver 
district, which forms the boundary between the two colonies. 
Blackwood {Acacia melanoxylon) produces the valuable 
fine-grained timber which has been described in the section 
dealing with Tasmania. 
Evergreen Beech {Fagiis cunninghamii) is also found in 
Tasmania (which see). 
Other smaller timber trees or brush timber, such as 
sassafras (used for saddle trees and boot lasts), box olive 
and other timbers, which furnish woods of beautiful grain 
for veneers, carving, etc., are also indigenous to Tasmania, 
It may be said generally that the forest region of 
Southern Victoria corresponds to a considerable extent 
with that of Tasmania, whilst in the northern part of the 
colony the trees are of a kind common to New South 
Wales. 
Timbers of Queensland, 
The most valuable woods are to be found in the coastal 
districts. The ironbark and other eucalypti, as well as 
Moreton Bay pine {A. cunninghaviii) , are most plentiful 
