T74 GIANT CEDARS. 



enclosed it on every side. Burrard Inlet was then a 

 place rarely visited by white men, and could only be 

 reached by a narrow Indian trail, whose devious 

 windings led to it, through the heart of this grand 

 forest, a distance of 6 or 7 miles, and so far as we 

 are aware not a single settler's cabin then existed upon 

 its shores. 



Now a great city is rising in what was then the 

 Wilderness *- the railroad coasts along its verdant 

 slopes, and spans the continent from sea to sea. Nor 

 perhaps is it too much to predict that before another 

 generation has passed away, Burrard Inlet will be 

 one of the great emporiums of the commerce of the 

 world but its wild and desolate grandeur, its Indians, 

 its magnificent forests, its game, and gigantic trees- 

 all will have disappeared, and their memory will consist 

 only in a name. 



There is another tree, which has been already 

 referred to as common in these woods, which is hardly 

 less remarkable in its size and growth than the 

 Douglas fir, namely the yellow cedar (Thuja Giganted]. 

 It is a species of a gigantic, and sweetly scented 

 arbor vttcz, of very rapid growth, whose range ex- 

 tends all over North Western America, f It is found 

 growing in the forests of the arctic province of 

 Alaska, and seems to do particularly well in the 

 northern parts of British Columbia and in the Queen 



* Vancouver City Western Terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 and probable great British N.W. American seaport of the 2oth century. 



f Seedlings of this tree succeed admirably all over the British Islands, 

 and we consider it one of the most valuable additions to our sylvan 

 treasures that has been introduced of late years. It passes under several 

 names in Nursery Catalogues. 



