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Uncle Philip ; I should Uke to go to Switzer- 

 land to see it." 



"Oh, it is all gone now; Mr. Rupp has 

 been dead several years, and the trough fell to 

 ruin, and now there is scarcely a trace left of 

 it. But let us come back to our pines. 



" The kind that is most valuable, after the 

 white and yellow, is the black or pitch pine. 

 The wood of the pitch pine is remarkably 

 knotty, and full of resinous matter ; it is much 

 inferior in quality to the white and the yellow 

 pine, and is generally used for coarse work, 

 such as candle and soap-boxes, and common 

 packing-cases ; it is also sawed up in some 

 parts of the country for boards for flooring ; 

 its greatest consumption, however, is for fuel ; 

 vast quantities are used on board steamboats, 

 and by bakers, and brick-makers. Formerly, 

 when the black pine was much more plentiful 

 than it is now, great quantities of tar and tur- 

 pentine used to be got from it in those parts 

 of the country where it grows ; but it is 

 rapidly diminishing, and most of the tar and 

 turpentine made in the United States now is 

 got from another kind that is very abundant 

 at the south ; it is called the long-leaved, or 

 Georgia pitch pine. In the course of twenty 



