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is a very fine tree. It grows well in all parts of North 

 America between forty and fifty degrees north lati- 

 tude. It grows well in Canada and all around Lake 

 Superior and all the other great lakes. In the west- 

 ern part of Massachusetts it sometimes grows more 

 than a hundred feet tall, with a trunk more than four 

 feet in diameter, and sixty or seventy feet high with- 

 out a branch. 



11 The wood is white, very tough, and very elastic 

 and strong. It is used for wheels and all other parts 

 of wagons. It is good to burn, and it is put to more 

 other uses in this country than any other tree. It is 

 used for the handles of rakes, pitchforks, hoes, shov- 

 els, and many other tools." 



Feldspar. 



" This morning the air was clear, the sky was deep 

 blue, and there was not a cloud to be seen, but before 

 noon the sky was completely covered with two or 

 three kinds of clouds, and it soon began to rain. 

 Yesterday afternoon at recess time there was a long 

 cirrus cloud which stretched entirely across the heav- 

 ens from horizon to horizon. 



11 Our science study to-day was on a mineral called 

 feldspar. Xext after quartz, it is the most abundant 

 of all minerals, and it is found in ever}* country in 

 the world. Feldspar is made up of four elements, 



