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ci.i-;axixi, (»L"r iiik hk.c an'i.xc \V()(_)I). 



tree could have existed through another 

 decade of such treatment. The sup- 

 porting shell on each side of this mon- 

 arch of trees was growing thinner and 



thinner. The original circumference 

 was eleven feet, lacking perhaps two 

 or three inches. 



Another of about the same size in 



