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Early Instructions to Report on Australian Timber. 
Poliowing is a portion of the Colonial Office instructions issued to Lieut. 
P. P. King on his starting on survey work in Australian waters in 1818. They are 
the first official instructions in regard to the economic vegetable products of Australia 
known to me. Governor Phillip’s instructions (at all events his first instructions, 
signed by the King) contain no reference to timber :— 
“ The vegetables, and particularly those that are applicable to any useful 
purposes, whether in medicine, dyeing, carpentry, &c., any scented or ornamental 
woods adapted for cabinet work and household furniture, and more particularly such 
woods as may appear to be useful in shipbuilding, hardwood for tree nails, block 
sheaves, &c., of all which it would be desirable to procure small specimens labelled 
and numbered, so that any easy reference to them may be made in the journal, to 
ascertain the quantities in which they are found, the facility or otherwise of floating 
them down to a convenient place for shipment, &c.” (Narrative of a Survey, Sfc. 
Introduction, xxxii.) These instructions were copied almost litteratim, and given by 
Governor Macquarie to Surveyor-General Oxley. See Journal of Two Expeditious 
into the Interior of N.S. W. (Oxley, p. 360.) 
SUPPLEMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 
(a) Spurs from the Comboyne, Manning River district. 
( b ) A view from Comboyne Tableland over Manning River Valley. 
(c) Track up the Comboyne from Taree. Photo, taken about 200 feet from top. 
(i d) Lyndon’s Crossing, Upper Lansdowne, Manning River. 
(e) Inspecting and Passing Timber, Upper Lansdowne. 
(/) Punts Loading Logs, Upper Lansdowne River. 
The above six photographs depict aspects of northern New South Wales brush forests. 
(g) In the Riverina Country, New South Wales; Loading White Pine Logs (Callitris robusta). 
(h) Sleeper-getters at work, Wyong. Blue-gum Log {Eucalyptus saligna). 
(i) Sleepers at a Wharf, Sydney, for India. 
(All F. A. Kirton, photo.) 
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