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may be only the litter and the little seedlings and young 

 plants which are cleaned up; in the mixed woods of the 

 Adii'ondacks a large part, often all the timber, dies wher- 

 ever the hre lias occurred (see Fig. 42) ; in the Hinckley 

 fire the forest was not only killed for miles, but in many 

 places almost everything was cleared ; all dry liml)s, tops, 



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dead timber, standing or down, were entirely consumed. 

 In a dense stand of green pine, balsam, or spruce it is a 

 common thing for the fire, intensely hot as it is, not 

 merely to kill all the trees, but to burn a large part of 

 the limbs with their resin-Hlled leaves, fairly roaring as 

 it shoots up one tree after another, and often flashing 

 thi-ough the crowns of several dozen at a time. A few 

 years later these trees are all Ijare skeletons (see Fig. 36), 



