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Spaniards i n 

 far away Flor- 

 ida, always the 

 unbroken for- 

 est, different 

 in species, per- 

 haps, but a 

 forest just the 

 same, dark and 

 impenetrable. 



A terrible 

 forest it 'was, 

 and threaten- 

 ing, too, in 

 spite of i t s 

 enormous po- 

 tential worth, 

 for from its 

 jealous grasp 

 these small but 

 cou r ageous 

 bands had to 

 wrest their 

 meagre little 

 farms and in its 



Courtesy the Lehigh Portland Cement Company 



ANOTHER STAGE IN OUR NATION'S DEVELOPMENT WHEN WILLIAM PENN 

 MADE HIS NOTED TREATY WITH THE INDIANS IN 1662, IN THE SHADE OF 

 THE FRIENDLY OAK. 



dark recesses were hidden the savage 

 tribes which were to menace their very existence for a cen- 

 tury or more. And a stout and stubborn enemy it proved 

 to be. Many a one of their number slept the long sleep, 



leaf - covered, 

 in that silent 

 forest before it 

 was conquered 

 and its original 

 owners put to 

 flight or re- 

 duced to igno- 

 minious servil- 

 ity. 



Capt. John 

 Smith, the 

 most famous 

 explorer o f 

 those early 

 days, traveled 

 back up some 

 of the rivers 

 for at least a 

 hundred miles 

 without finding 

 the limit of 

 those forests. 

 So far as they 

 could tell the forest stretched on in unbroken stands 

 to the far away Pacific, wherever that might be. Prob- 

 ably Daniel Boone and some of his intrepid forest run- 

 ners who penetrated the Bloody Ground beyond the 



WHITE PINE IN PENNSYLVANIA SUCH FORESTS PROMISE TO BE A CURIOSITY TO THE CHILDREN OF 



THE NEXT GENERATIONS 



