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older than this, and still sound. The hemlocks cspe- 

 da%, whm the growth had been very gradnaL the tree 

 havmg been suppressed by the preponderance of shade 

 on the part of the larger giants about it, were still per- 

 fectly healthy; while the dominant trees 

 which had, on in motf of their inhmden 

 of light, realized a much ycahu * M> *E^ a and a 

 wider duinetei OMIT JIT had either began to decay 

 after their mtfniky had come, or, their overtopping 

 *-** having neon caught in the nimli, lad neon 

 blown down to make room for others younger. Bat 

 there k is. the record of the years, in the logs. There 

 they have stood for hondndi of years, these woody 

 while generation after generation of men, 



from the Incfian to the pioneer, and from the settler 

 to the mannfactnrer, ha%'e passed beneath their shelter- 

 ing roof and made use of the best of them. Behold 

 them in their JugHU unjuly, as they sway, 

 the trees! those **^"*^, farrowed, 



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I have counted the nngs of trees which were here, and 

 were of fair size, when Cblombas first cannc to the Xew 

 World, and the sruouvis of the West are as old as Ac 

 pyramids and have seen in their w3d forest Efe the 

 whole haloty of the Christian era. 



errant s fines m <\ Forest HTOHI nave come to 

 my thought. Let us read them : 



