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water are found to alleviate rheumatic and neuralgic pains, also 
the extreme debility following an attack of malaria. Lozenges 
are used for throat and lung disease, and there are also various 
specifics for other maladies in the form of cigars. As anti- 
septics Eucalyptus oils and soaps are exceedingly efficacious, and 
it is interesting to find them making way here. A chemist, on 
whose counter I saw some of this most fragrant soap, at Hastings, 
the other day, assured me that it had been in great demand for 
twelve months. It is especially recommended for use in the sick 
room. 
Many specimens of these medical, and also of artistic prepa- 
rations have been sent to me from Algeria, and all are charac- 
terized by a grateful fragrance, once inhaled never forgotten. I 
may mention inter alia , the sticking-plaster, tooth-powder, 
toilet-water, tracing-paper, oil for preserving natural and ana- 
tomical specimens, veneer, the list being too long to give entire. 
Naturally it is in Algeria, the adopted country of the Euca- 
lyptus, that these investigations have been carried on with the 
greatest vigour, though in Paris, especially since the Algerian 
Exhibition, held two years ago, much interest has been excited 
on the subject. We may therefore expect many new and im- 
portant additions to our knowledge of the resources of this 
wonderful tree. 
It has been mentioned that Labillardiere recognized the 
value of the Eucalyptus timber, which for hardness and durability 
is said to rival teak-wood. When we consider that it attains in 
six or seven years the dimensions of the oak in twenty, and may 
be expected in its twentieth year to furnish such logs of timber 
for shipbuilding and other purposes as could not be supplied 
by an oak under a hundred years old, we can understand the 
enthusiasm of planters. Consul Playfair, in the report already 
alluded to, mentions that when he wished, a short time since, 
to send a Eucalyptus tree four or five years old to England, its 
great length made it impossible to convey it in a boat to the 
steamer, and the boatman decided on towing it alongside. It 
sank, however, in the sea, and divers had to be employed in 
raising it. After it has been properly seasoned its specific gravity 
becomes less, and it then floats in water. The Consul is con- 
vinced that no other culture offers such prospects of success, 
provided the cultivator can afford to wait some time for his 
returns. 
M. Trottier is the author to consult on this subject ; and 
though his calculations read like the dreams of a visionary, they 
are without doubt based on scientific data. M. Carlotti, again, 
calculates that in planting large tracts in Corsica with Euca- 
lyptus trees, the plantations would produce large profits in a 
few years; and we learn that the annual exportation of Euca- 
