THE KAURI PINE. 



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NEW ZEALAND. 



him. In my last walk I stopped again and again to gaze 

 on these beauties, and endeavored to fix in my mind forever 

 an impression which, at the time, I knew 

 must sooner or later fail. The form of the 

 orange -tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the 

 mango, the tree-fern, the banana, will re- 

 main clear and separate; but the thousand 

 beauties which unite these into one perfect 

 scene must fade away. 



THE KAURI PINE. 



AT Waimate, in New Zealand, two mis- 

 sionary gentlemen walked with me to part 

 of a neighboring forest, to show me the 

 famous kauri pine. I measured one of these 

 noble trees and found it thirty -one feet 

 in circumference above the roots. There 

 was another close by, which I did not see, thirty-three feet ; 

 and I heard of one no less than forty feet. These trees are 

 remarkable for their smooth cylindrical boles, which run up 

 to a height of sixty, and even ninety, feet, with a nearly 

 equal diameter, and without a single branch. The crown 

 of branches at the top is out of all proportion small to the 

 trunk ; and the leaves are likewise small compared with 

 the branches. The forest was here almost composed of the 

 kauri, and the largest trees stood up like gigantic columns 

 of wood. 



MANGO FRUIT. 



