Excerpt from Paper on the Eucalypts of AustraliaThe timber of Eucalyptus marginata, Smith - the Swan River or West Australian mahogany, or mahogany eucalypt (restricted to Western Australia), is worthy of special notice, from the wonderful property it possesses of being absolutely impervious to the inroads of the Limnoria, Teredo and Chelura: a property which eminently adapts it for the construction of wharves, jetties.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.