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1806?
Observations on the various kinds of Timber of New South Wales.
New South Wales produces a great variety of timber trees, to some of which the Colonists have given names descriptive of their qualities, and others they call by the names of the European trees which they most resemble either in leaf, in fruit or in the texture of the wood. Among the former are the (1) blue, (1) red, & (2) black butted gums, (2) Stringy, and (3) Iron barks, (4) turpentine and (5) light wood, and the latter are the (6) she Oaks, (7) Mahogany, (8) Cedar, (9) box, (10) honeysuckle (11) tea tree, (12) pear tree, (13) apple tree and (14) fig tree. all these trees shed their bark annually at
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