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USES OF PRINCIPAL WOODS.

Table CLXXIV.continued.
SPECIES. WHERE GROWN. USES.
Fir, white wood North Europe Common purposes in carpentry, packing cases, &c.
Fir. Riga Russia Constructive purposes generally, superior for masts.
Fir. Swedish Sweden Constructive purposes generally, inferior to Dantzic or Riga.
Fir. Norway Norway Constructive purposes generally, inferior to Dantzic or Riga.
Fir, Spruce N. Europe and N. America Light framing, floor boards, boats oars and spars, scaffold poles, &c.
Forest light wood. Australia Cabinet work.
Greenheart Demerara Keelsons, shelf pieces, and planking in ships, excellent for piles, &c.
Grignon French Guiana Civil architecture, domestic arts.
Grapiapunha Brazil Naval and civil architecture.
Guarabu Brazil Naval and civil architecture.
Gum, White Australia Constructive purposes in carpentry.
Gum, Brown Australia Constructive purposes in carpentry.
Gum, Curly. Australia Constructive purposes in carpentry.
Gum, Red Australia Constructive purposes in carpentry.
Gum, Swamp Australia Constructive purposes in carpentry.
Hackmatack North America See Larch, American.
Honeysuckle Australia Furniture work, boat-building.
Hornbeam Britain Cogs in machinery, wheelwrights’ work, turnery, &c.
Incaranda-tan Brazil Furniture and ornamental work.
Incaranda-cabiuna Brazil Furniture and ornamental work.
Iron-bark Australia Ship-building, piles, agricultural implements, fencing, &c.
Iron-wood Burmah See Pyengadu.
Jarrah Australia Ship - building, piles, railway sleepers, agricultural implements.
Jenipapo Brazil Carpentry, domestic arts.
Juba . Havana A substitute for Sabicu, in ship-building, furniture, &c.
Kahikatea New Zealand Indoor work in houses, packing-cases, &c.
Kahikatoa New Zeland Architectural works, piles, domestic arts, &c.
Kammone Burmah Constructive purposes generally.
Kamonpew Burmah Constructive purposes generally.
Kapor Borneo See Camphor.
Karra Philippine Islds. Constructive purposes generally.
Kari West Australia Piles, railway sleepers, agricultural implements, &c.