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Mr. A. MacPherson, then of Umfcmgo, Tarcutta, wrote under date 4th October, 1897 : 
This wood is used locally for wheelwrights' purposes, and whenever strength and toughness are 
of importance I am disposed to think that for carriage building it would prove equaj to most of the timbers 
imported from America for that purpose. It is said not to last well in the ground, though in this respect 
I have had very contradictory accounts. Mr. Ramsay informs me that last year he sent to the Roads 
Department in Sydney part of a plank taken from a miner's sluice-box which has been in a situation such 
that the wood had been continually moist for a period of twenty-five years without sensible deterioration i 
The Eurabbie attains a great size, both in point of height and thickness, and can be procured in very long 
and wide planks, free from gum veins. It grows in considerable quantity over a large area on the western 
slopes of the Great Dividing Range from the Victorian boundary northwards to the latitude of Binalong. 
As it generally grows in steep gullies in places where, for climatic reasons, the land has now no value for 
agricultural purposes and but little for grazing purposes, I think a careful examination of its habitat might 
with advantage to the public interests be made, so as to ensure the preservation of a valuable timber where 
it inay be found still existing on Crown lands. Unfortunately, near Tumbarumba many thousands of 
of Jiurabbio timber have been destroyed by ringbarking on conditional leases, yielding little revenue 
to the State and perhaps less profit to the lessees. 
Sj?C. A tree of this species, measured at Tolosa (Tasmania) in JS^S had an 
estimated (my italics J.H.M.) height of 330 feet, and the actual measurements were : 
Circumference at ground, 78 feet 9 inches; at 6 feet above the ground, 71 feet 9 inches 
(Proc. Royal Society, Van Diemen's Lwid, 1851). In moist and rich ground in Tasmania 
thjs tree attains a diameter of 24 to 30 inches in twenty years. The diameter of the 
tree is greatly increased near the ground by the spreading of the bole, and, in consequence, 
the sawyers and splitters have to erect stages 10 feet and more above the ground, 
and then chop and saw it through where the diameter is much less, say 10 or 12 feet. 
Habitat. Originally discovered in Tasmania, it has been found to occur pretty 
extensively in Victoria, and it is by no means rare in New South Wales, chiefly in 
southern alpine regions. A favourite tree for planting, it now often occurs even in 
South and Western Australia and Southern Queensland, but it is not indigenous there. 
As regards Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales, it is important for observers 
to carefully distinguish between localities in which it is planted and those in which it 
is spontaneous. 
As regards Tasmania, it is fairly well diffused over many parts of the island, 
except in the west. It is more common in the south than in the north. 
In Viptoria it ocpurs chiefly jn GippsUnd,, and detailed localities will be found 
in my " Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus," Part XVIII, p. 251. 
At pa,ge* 3S2-5 wiU be found a detailed account of its occurrence in New South 
Wales, which should he referred to, since it is far too voluminous to repeat here. 
In Tasman^ it is quite common to find it piractically on the sea-level. In 
Victoria it occurs on the sea-level to not much over 2,000 feet. (Harry Hopkins.) 
Jn Npw South Wales it is. not surprising to learn that it is found at higher 
elevations. 
' I have it here, growing on the roadside (foot of Talbingo) 23 miles from Tumut, 
at an elevation of about 1,200 or 1,300 feet." (W. A. W. dc Beuzeville.) 
