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the sight of it, suffices to carry one away to the 

 Scottish Highlands. When it is seen domin- 

 ating the billowy masses of the trees of the 

 English lowlands, it may be compared to 

 Highland cattle confined with shorthorns in 

 an English field. In Mr. Peter Graham's 

 well-known picture, *'A Spate in the High- 

 lands," the pines, relics doubtless of a primeval 

 forest, such as one sees in Scotland, are like the 

 shaggy, tawny cattle at large on the moor or in 

 the glen. In this picture, a clump of pines, in 

 the middle distance, stands like the remnant 

 of an army making a last, desperate defence. 

 In the foreground, the roots of one that has 

 fallen before the gale, gleam ghastly white, like 

 bleaching bones. 



Evelyn, evidently, had not seen the pine 

 amid its most fitting surroundings. His first- 

 hand knowledge of trees and their habitats 

 seems to have been confined to what he could 

 see in England and in such countries as were 

 included in the conventional grand tour. Thus 

 he says : "The worst land in Wales bears (as I 

 am told) large pine " ; and, again : '' In Scotland 

 there is a most beautiful sort of fir growing 

 upon the mountains ; of which from that un- 

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