APPENDIX 
331 
IT X 4 IS X 5 
li X 4| 
li X 6 
li X 7 
IJ X 9 
in. 
in. 
in. in. 
in. 
in. 
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X 
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X 
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The Archangel and St. Petersburg goods are the wider sizes and 
xun mostly from 7 to 11 and 12 inches. 
As showing how in the most out of the way and unlikely locahties 
the timber merchant searches for his suppUes, the author had gone 
carefully through a report on the timber of the Hawauan Islands 
prepared by the United States Forestry Department ui 1904, and 
neither in that nor in any other work deahng with the place could he 
find any likelihood of timber in any quantity from this locality being 
put on the market ; yet, shortly afterwards, he saw in a trade journal 
that a company had contracted to supply a large number of " Ohia 
sleepers per annum to an American railway company. Ohia-lehua 
(Metrosideros j^olymorpha), which grows to a height of 100 ft. and 
4 ft. diameter, produces a wood of reddish colour, and, although it 
had been used for sleepers in the island, splits and warps so badly 
that it was not generally considered fit for much else than fuel Koa 
{Acacia Jcoa), related botanically to the blackwood of Austraha and 
Tasmania {A. melanoxylon), is the one fairly abundant Hawaiian tree 
which is valuable for its timber. It is a highly-prized cabinet wood, 
a good deal used on the island, and exported to a small extent._ The 
colour varies through rich shades of red and brown ; the gram is fine 
and indistinct. Curly koa is especially prized but very rare. 
