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bulk it looks remarkably like a parcel of uncut garnets. Owing to its friability, the 
bright fractures become dulled with very little friction; the colour of the powder is 
orange-brown. 
Dr. Lauterer* also examines this kino at length. 
Size. —Mr. George S. Hill, of Wingham, quotes the size of a Tallow-wood 
Girth (3 feet from surface), 26 feet. It was growing 1,800 to 2,000 feet above 
sea-level on Bnlga Mountain, head of Ellenborough River, and lie adds that he hears 
that the Tallow-woods are much larger some distance beyond this. 
The height of mature Tallow-wood trees is from 100 to 150 feet, with a circumference of from 7 to 
12 feet. The trees appear to be healthful, and the young trees make good growth. Very large trees are 
rarely sound at heart.—(Forester John Martin, late of Gosford.) 
Its approximate height is about 140 or 150 feet, diameter about 3 feet. It not unfrequently 
attains a height of 170 or 180 feet, with a diameter up to 5 or even 6 feet; 4 or 5 feet in diameter is 
frequent. 
It is a tree of exceptionally large size, up to 25 feet in circumference by 180 to 200 feet in height. 
(Of twenty-five trees I measured at 4 feet from the ground the average circumference proved to be 17 feet 
2 inches).—(Late Forester A. Rudder, Booral.) 
A Tallow-wood tree in the forest near the Lansdowne River we measured by 
tape, and found to be 30 feet 4 inches in girth at 3 feet from the ground, and 27 feet 
3 inches at 6 feet. We estimated its height at 150 feet. This tree is, to outward 
appearance, sound, though the heart has probably gone. 
We noted some logs from the mountain lying at the wharf on the Lansdowne 
River. Following are their measurements:—A Tallow-wood, at 14 feet from the 
ground, was 13 feet 8 inches in girth. From this one tree 106 running feet of log 
were cut up at the mill. A second Tallow-wood was 13 feet in girth at 12 feet from 
the ground, and had an 11-inch pipe; 118 running feet of log were cut from this 
tree ready for the mill. 
There were twenty Tallow-wood logs of vai’ying lengths lying on the wharf, 
and we do not doubt that there were 2,000 feet of timber in each log (clear of pipe). 
From sap to heart the timber was of one uniform bright yellow colour. In a word, 
the Tallow-wood we saw here was, without exception, the largest and finest we have 
seen in the State. 
The Tallow-wood is the chief glory of this magnificent forest. A monster 
fell a few hundred yards from our party, and the noise of falling was like the roar 
of a park of artillery. We took the following dimensions of this prostrate giant—15 
feet of stump had been left. It was 62 feet more to the first fork, and its girth was 
27 feet 4 inches at 3 feet from the ground. A log; was 14 feet 2 inches in girth in 
the centre, and 8,820 feet was calculated in this log. Many trees will give 12,000 
or 14,000 feet of timber each. We came across a fine tree 65 feet to the first 
branch. (Maiden and de Coquc, in 1895.) 
* “ Gums and Resins exuded by Queensland plants chemically and technologically described.” From pp. 35 to SO 
of F. M. Bailey’s Botany Bulletin No. xiii (April, 1S96), “Contributions to the Queensland Flora.” 
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