d in Manila for house-building, etc.

Natives employed in the felling of timber often become very expert
in the selection and appreciation of the standing trunks.

The approximate order of resistance of the best woods, estimated
by their practical employment and not by theoretical comparative
experiments, would be as follows, viz.:--

HARDWOOD STRAINS

Tensile Strain. Transverse Strain.

1 Dungon. 8 Acle. 1 Molave. 8 Banaba.
2 Yacal. 9 Narra. 2 Camagon. 9 Yacal.
3 Ipil. 10 Tindalo. 3 Ipil. 10 Mangachapuy.
4 Mangachapuy. 11 Molave. 4 Acle. 11 Lauan.
5 Guijo. 12 Lauan. 5 Dungon. 12 Guijo.
6 Banaba. 13 Cedar. 6 Tindalo. 13 Cedar.
7 Camagon. 14 Lanete. 7 Narra. 14 Lanete.

The hardwoods of the Philippines, suitable for building and
trade requirements as described above, are those in general use
only. Altogether about fifty kinds exist, but whilst some are
scarce, others do not yield squared logs of sufficient sizes to be
of marketable value. Amongst these are the _Quercus concentrica_
(Tagalog, _Alayan_), a sort of oak; the _Gimbernatia calamansanay_
(Tagalog, _Calamansanay_); the _Cyrtocarpa quinquestyla_ (Tagalog,
_Amaguis_), and others.

To carry on successfully a timber trade in this Colony, with ability
to fulfil contracts, it is necessary to employ large capital. Firstly,
to ensure supplies by the cutters, the trader must advance them sums
amounting in the total to thousands of pesos, a large percentage of
which he can only nominally recover by placing them against future
profits; secondly, he must own several sailing-ships, built on a
model suited to this class of business. Several Europeans have lost
the little money they had by having to freight unsuitable craft for
transport to the place of delivery, and by only advancing to the
native fellers just when they wanted logs brought down to the beach,
instead of keeping them constantly under advance. With sufficient
capital, however, a handsome profit is to be realized in this line
of business, if it is not killed by too much new legislation.

So far Philippine woods have not met in London with the appreciation
due to their excellent qualities, possibly because they are not
sufficiently well known. In China, however, they are in great demand,
in spite of the competition from Bo