CHAPTER XV. 
THE DANTZIC OAK TREE ( Quercus). 
This Oak derives its name from the port of shipment, 
but is chiefly the produce of the Polish forests, whence 
the bulk of it is brought down the river Vistula to 
Dantzic; small quantities are also sent into the ports 
of Memel and Stettin by other sources. 
There is a considerable quantity of Oak timber 
exported from these three places in logs, varying from 
18 to 30 feet in length, and from 10 to 16 inches square, 
and also planks 24 feet and upwards in length, averaging 
about 32 feet, the breadth being from 9 to 15 inches, 
and the thickness varying from 2 to 8 inches. Large 
quantities of staves, roughly cleft from the tree, are also 
exported in various sizes, suitable for the manufacture of 
every description of cask or barrel. 
The Dantzic-Polish or Prussian Oak timber is 
obtained from a tree of straight growth. It is brown 
in colour, of moderate strength and hardness, rather 
porous, and has the medullary rays bright and sufficiently 
