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be confined to restricted localities. Ours oceupies a narrow strip 
of land extending along the east bank of the Apalachicola river, 
from-Chattahooche on the north, to Alum Bluff on the south, a 
distance of about twenty miles, and forming a continuous forest, 
but in detached and often widely separated clumps or groves, 
generally mingled with, or overshadowed by, magnolias, oaks and 
other native trees, There are, also, a few trees at the southern ex- 
tremity of Cypress Lake, three miles west-of the river. It is a 
wild, hilly region, abounding in rocky cliffs and deep sandy 
ravines (“ spring-heads,”) and unlike in scenery and vegetation 
any other part of the low country known to me. To these cliffs, 
and to the precipitous sides of these ravines, the tree appears to 
diameter, and of a brighter green than is exhibited by most trees 
ofthe order. Its branches are in whorls, and spread horizontally, 
by Mr, Croom in the grounds of the Capitol at Tallahassee, where, 
Tam informed, two or three of the trees still survive. : 
ut its chief value is due to the remarkable durability of its 
Mp When exposed to the vicissitudes of climate ; for it is credi- 
ni reported that some fences constructed of it sixty years ago 
ity it is now extensively employed by 
‘ ‘ounding country for meh piles; and other exposed con- 
wictions. In view of these facts, the future of our Torreya 1s 
Hatter calculated to excite very grave apprehensions. A tree 
eee of such valuable qualities, occupying an area so sora 
“tent, and in the midst of a population where the old rule o 
“Let him take who has the power, 
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And let him keep who can”— pane 
