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A tree of ICnculjiptm iijui/(jd'i/iii(t in tlic recesses orDaiuleiiong, 

 was iiieasiired by Mr. J). Boyle, and lound to have attained a 

 liei^lit of 420 ieet. jMr. (I. W. llobinson supposes this I'hu'alypt 

 towards the sources of tlie Yarra to attain a heis^ht of ")()() i'eet. 

 lie found tlie circuniferiiice of a tree growing in tlie back ranges 

 of Berwick to be SI feet, at the distance of 4 feet from the 

 ground. A Eucalyptus on the Black Spur was measured by Mr. 

 (J. Klein, and its licight found to be ISO feet, consequently ex'ceed- 

 ingby 40 feet twice the height of the towers of Notre Dame Ca- 

 thedral in this city, and overtopping the tidiest of th.o celebrated 

 ^Scqitoia WrU'iHfjtonia'x, or Big Trees of Caliibruia, by 155 feet ; 

 as, according to J. 1). Whitney, the State Geologist, tlie Sequoia 

 known by the name <)f '•' Keystone Stat.',"' in the Calaveras grove, 

 stands at the head of the Big Trees, with an elevation of ;]25 feet, 

 and this, he adds, is the t;dlest tree yet measured on this conti- 

 nent, so far as our information goes. 



If the size of these Euealypts is astonishing, not less remark- 

 able is the quantity of timber su]»ported by the soil in the places 

 •where they grow. In the State ibrest at Dandenong (A^ictoria), 

 it was I'ound by actual measurement that an acre of ground eon- 

 tained twenty large trees of an apparent average height of about 

 o50 feet, and thirty-eight saplings of an apparent average lieight 

 of fifty feet; the land being occupied besides by a dense under- 

 UTOwth. A''ain, in one of the densest parts of the Mount Mace- 

 don State forest, an acre of messmate (^/•Jucili/ptiisjissill.s, Ford. 

 Mueller) forest was found to contain forty-two large standing 

 trees and twelve saplings. Many of the largest of these trees 

 were from six to seven feet in diameter, f<mr feet from the 

 "••round, and from 200 to 220 feet hhAi. These measurements 

 were taken by Messrs. Couchman and 11. Brough Smyth ; the 

 latter gentleman states that in the Mount Juliet Ranges, he 

 found trees of far greater height and standing much closer to- 

 gether than in the ^Macedon Ranges. The Euealypts are of very 

 rapid growth, and it is more than probable that the extraordinary 

 dimensions which some of these trees have attained is not so 

 much the result of a very great age, but is rather due to extreme 

 rapidity of growth. This marvellous quickness of growth, com- 

 bined with a perfect fitness to resist drought, has rendered many 

 of these trees famed abroad. Baron Von Mueller says: "In 

 Australian vegetation we probably possess the means of obliter- 

 ating the rainless zones of the globe, to spread at last woods over 



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