364 THE HEMLOCK. 



fertile. It is fond of moisture, often extending its grace- 

 ful boughs from the summits of granitic rocks and de- 

 clivities wet with perpetual springs. " The Hemlock is 

 natural to the coldest regions of America, and begins to 

 appear about Hudson's Bay, near Lake St. John ; in 

 the neighborhood of Quebec it fills the forests, and in 

 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the States of Maine and 

 Vermont, and a considerable part of New Hampshire, it 

 constitutes three fourths of the evergreen woods. Further 

 south it is less common, and in the Middle and Southern 

 States it is seldom seen, except on the Alleghanies." 



