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Excerpt from A Note Upon the "Bee-Hole" Borer of Teak in Burma Captain Guthrie, Superintendent of Forests in the Tenasserim provinces, wrote in a report dated 20th June 1845 Of the Thaun gyin teak I may remark that I have seen it growing and thriving in every vari'ety of locality; it has generally the advantage of carry ing its girth well to a great height, not tapering quickly; it appears to be somewhat liable to small cells, isolated, but which appear in sawing up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.