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associated with the grandeur of Swiss scenery that 

 the sight of it never fails to touch chords in our bosom 

 which awaken the most pleasing recollections. What 

 can be more truly sublime than to behold, opposed to 

 the intensely blue ether, the glazed white summits of 

 Mont Blanc, or the Jungfrau, rising above the inter- 

 minable forests of Spruce Firs which clothe the bases 

 of the mountains ? " 



TRANSVERSE SECTION OF NEEDLE-LEAF OF SPRUCE FIR. 



