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kneeing ships, but has never yet been tried.
14 The fig tree is the Banyan tree of India, well known by its branches striking downwards and taking root, the wood of it is entirely useless.
It may be remarked that all the large timber trees of New South Wales, (except those growing in swamps) are unsound in the heart, this is probably owing to insufficiency of moisture, as well as to the continual firing of the grass by the Natives, which must dry up the sap of the young trees. It also deserves to be noticed that several gum trees, Iron and stringy barks, Mahogany and Box, which were felled at the first establishment of the Colony are now perfectly sound and hard though exposed to the weather for 15 years. From
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