EUCALYPTUS TREES, 16 1 
the length of four hundred and twenty feet, with 
proportions of width, indicated in a design ofa monu- 
mental structure placed in the Exhibition ; while Mr. 
G. Klein took the measurement of a Eucalyptus on 
the Black Spur, ten miles distant from Healesville, 
four hundred and eighty feet high! Mr. E. B. Heyne 
obtained at Dandenong as measurements of height of 
a tree of Eucalyptus amygdalina: Length of stem 
from the base to the first branch, two hundred and 
ninety-five feet; diameter of the stem at the first 
branch, four feet; length of stem from first branch 
to where its top portion was broken off, seventy feet; 
diameter of the stem where broken off, three feet ; 
total length of stem up to place of fracture, three hun- 
dred and sixty - five feet; girth of stem three feet 
from the surface, forty-one feet. A still thicker tree 
measured, three feet from the base, fifty-three feet in 
circumference. Mr. George W. Robinson ascertained, 
in the back-ranges of Berwick, the circumference of 
a tree of Eucalyptus amygdalina to be eighty - one 
feet at a distance of four feet from the ground, and 
supposes this Eucalypt, toward the sources of the 
Yarra and Latrobe rivers, to attain a height of half 
a thousand feet. The same gentleman found Fagus 
Cunninghami to gain a height of two hundred feet 
and a circumference of twenty-three feet. 
Tt is not at all likely that in these isolated inquiries 
chance has led to the really highest trees, which the 
most secluded and the least accessible spots may still 
conceal. Jt seems, however, almost beyond dispute, 
that the trees of Australia rival in length, though evi- 
dently not in thickness, even the renowned forest-gi- 
ants,of California, Sequoia Wellingtonia, the highest 
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