X. 



SYLVAN NOMENCLATURE. 



TILL of suggestiveness 

 as trees are, it is not 

 surprising that so large 

 a number of towns and 

 villages have adopted 

 the names of the parti- 

 cular species of sylvan 

 growth abounding in 

 their neighbourhoods. 

 At the beginning of set- 

 tlements in wooded country, emigrants have often 

 regarded trees with enmity. Such has been to a 

 large extent the feeling in America and some other 

 places. The immense and trying labour of 

 clearing the ground has doubtless given rise to 

 this feeling ; but with the rapid disappearance of 

 what was at the commencement regarded as a 



