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usually covered with broad-leaved trees, such as maple, beech 

 and birch, because it is well drained." In other words, Macoun 

 would seem to intimate that in the mountains, as the writer has 

 shown to be locally the case in the lowland, the evergreen 

 coniferous forest is to be regarded as an edaphic rather than 





Figure 47. — Primeval coniferous forest of the regional climax type; 

 mountains near Cape North. 



a climatic climax association-type. With this opinion the writer 

 emphatically disagrees for reasons which are briefly outlined 

 below. 



In ascending the mountain slopes which flank the plateau, 

 there is a gradual transition from the forests of the lowland 

 climax type to those of the highland, a transition which has been 

 repeatedly traced out and verified. In passing upward, the 



