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Title: Opals and agates : or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans : being memoirs of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia : with nine illustrations
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Bartley, Nehemiah, 1830?-1894
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Australia Prospecting -- Australia Australia -- Description and travel Australia -- History Oceania
Publisher: Brisbane : Gordon and Gotch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ars of 120 feetby four feet thick, at times. It resists damp, and is not so quicklyinflammable as pine. The boxwood (eucalyptus leucoxylon) is softerand more workable. It rises 180 feet with a diameter of six feet attimes ; it is neither so hard, nor so durable, as iron bark. The bluegum grows to 120 feet by four feet, midway between the box andironbark in hardness and durability. The flooded gum is usefulfor shipbuilding. The blackbutt rises to 150 feet, and has beenfound 14 feet in diameter at the base. Of medium density, it comesin for all kinds of work. The stringy bark (E. fabrorum) is animmense and widely useful eucalypt. The ti-tree is imperishable inwet positions for piles or fences, The silky oak (a stenocarpus)makes the best of coopers staves for tallow casks. The great scrubacacia, or wattle, is an excellent, light, tough, wood, for axe handles,bullock yokes, &c. The acacia pendula is the scented myall or• violet wood, and the acacia decurrens yields the tanning bark.
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THE CASCADE OF THE BARRON RIVER, Tropical Queensland;900 Feet Wide, 700 Feet Deep. As Seen in Dry Weather. (By Permission of Mr. J. J. Hogg, Briabane). THE CASCADE OF THE BARRON RIVER—TROPICAL QUEENSLAND. Our planet contains some splendid waterfalls, amongst which thepremier place has been generally assigned to Niagara, with its wideriver, and its separate and magnificent cataracts, of some 1,800 feet,and 900 feet in width, and 150 feet deep, and which do not, afterall, represent the whole width of the great river bed. A grandsight of natural force and beauty, which no earthly power can, forone moment, dam up or arrest, save the wizard spell of the iceking, who, in winter, seals it all up into a form of frosted loveliness,surpassing, in its stately calm, and charm of rest, the noisier beautymotion of its summer existence. Deeper, but narrow, cascades inCalifornia and New Zealand, Norway and Labrador, Tahiti andNukuheva have charmed the lovers of scenexy, and nearly all sing usthe sa

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