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In the course of Publication, a New Edition of the 



NORTH AMERICAN SYLVA, 



OR 



A DESCRIPTION OF THE FOREST TREES 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND NOVA SCOTIA; 



jConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the Arts, and 

 their introduction into Commerce ; with a Description of the most 

 useful of the European Forest Trees. 



Illustrated by 156 finely colored Engravings. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF F. ANDREW MICHAUX, 



Member of the American Philosophical Society, &c. &c. &c. 



To which will be added three additional volumes, containing all the 

 Forest Trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the Ter- 

 ritory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific and into 

 the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the 

 United States. 



Illustrated by 122 finely colored Plates. 

 BY THOMAS NUTTALL, F. L. S., 





Member of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Academy of Natural 



Sciences of Philadelphia, Sec. &c. &c. 



The whole to be completed in Six Volumes, Imperial 8vo., with 



278 Plates. 



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hundred and twenty two Plates, finely colored, mostly of new sub- 

 jects, or such as have not been before published in the Sylva, exe- 

 cuted with the strictest fidelity to nature, under the eye of the Editor. 

 Additional remarks on the uses and economy of the Forest Trees of 

 the United States, will also be given, so as to complete, as far as 

 possible, the requisite information on this important subject. 



It is quite unnecessary to say any thing in praise of Michaux's 

 magnificent work on the Forest Trees of our country ; the well es- 

 tablished reputation of Mr. Nuttall, the editor of the additional 

 part of the work, is a sufficient guaranty for its accuracy and the 

 style of its execution. The Plates, which will amount to "218, will 

 be finely and carefully colored ; and the whole will form one of the 





