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of lite at midwinter in this southern 

 cliine. 



Another species of oak which is very 

 abundant here and Uiroughout this re- 

 gion is known as tlie Water Oak, Quer- 

 cus aquatica. The leaves of these oaks 

 are quite unlike tliose of our Canadian 



them the long leaf Pine, or Southern 

 Pitch Pine, Pinus australis. It is a 

 tree of lofty growth, with a tall shaft 

 like the mast of a vessel, stretching up- 

 wards without a branch for many feet. 

 Doctor Mohr assures me that they not 

 uncommonly reach to the height of a 



EVERGREEN OAK 



Oaks, beinu' imidi sni.illn- and entire, 

 II, .^ <M,f ... I In- (.Jges. It were difficult 

 I isiitined only to the oaks of 



<>M! I'M.-i to ac<"oj)t these small leaves 

 with i-.'-ul.ir (.iitliiic ms those of an oak 

 but for tlif Miiiiiisrakable acorns and 

 cups, which ai Diic-e satisfy all doubts. 

 The Cotton Wood. Pi>i>nJnx mo/ioli- 

 ferd, also grows heic, hut the ticcs I 

 saw were of very modest dimensions. 

 And here I formed the acquaintance of 

 a new race of pin(?s, foremost among 



IN MOBILE. 



hundred feet and (ucr. Fioui hini I 

 learned that the h. rests of tiiis h)iig- 

 leaf Pine in Alaliama tonii i^ui' sepa- 

 rate roi,noiis, the iiKuiLime rc-;ion, the 

 central pino belt, the forests of the 

 Coosa river, and an isolated forest in 

 Walker County, covering an aggregate 

 of twelve thou.sand square miles, and 

 computed by him to yield an amount 

 of merchantable pine equal to 19,000,- 

 000,000 feet, linear measure. Not- 

 withstanding which, he says that the 



