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yew. The tree must grow in places to seventy or eighty feet in lieight. 

 One species of tree-heath begins at 7,000 feet and ascends to 9,000 feet. 

 An enormous species witli sh'ghtly larger leaflets replaces it at 9.000 feet, 



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and ascends to 12,900 feet; bamboos begin at 7,000 feet and ascend to 

 9,000 feet ; proteaceous scrubs begin at 7,500 feet and ascend to 12,000 

 feet. A species of Hypericum, very like the English St. John's wort, with 

 yellow flowers, begins at 8,000 feet and ascends to 10.000 feet. At 



