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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
505 
a few 
| mode in which the merid is obtained. 
Alerse are like mii the Са lbucano, ‹ or 
nothing but ida he or accident 
native, and | 
notices are added by Captain Fitzroy, as to the E changing shoulders every quarter of an hour, called 
‘The forests of 
*Cantatun. These words are com: monly used in that 
an count tries distance is described by 
province to describe any distance. Ина! all 
ndi: 2n Indian's 
s boards ovd he PE E a Seas d 
A man а: wife, оь, ма ri thei 
rtun ad dol t Bei to dad plenty 
straight grs at not mo: the 
of fine -grained 
"- — 
. LiBOCEDRUS CHILENSIS. 
„We are a ablo to give some account of the timber 
ll 
thri dps: ve miles from the 
dow: oards in a month. 
ires E. felled i is ле, ап Astillero. 
таш 
Sem а 
Неге, оп 
d brin ng 
he flans e ers the 
the 
of a nearly , now well known in England. 
Of this plant Mr. "Whyte, a gentleman uy be been 
many years resident in Chili, writes as follows :— 
cedrus 
блох of the Greeks, or the Callitris quadriva of fanka of the Co will з If i Керен de dira thier trop е wil become o ne 
i wn in 
Morocco, yielding a most durable kind of imbon, hie теч week * "hod go Ж ome and clean their Potato- sia vig: Tho aol d bes eautiful, fine. nd; aid 
which account it largely used in Grenada by the di^ dnd i5 tters, till their feet : 
Moors in constructing palaces and edifices of тев | 8100008 and attend to prn Xasttens, till their the | easily worked, and as far as the observation of the 
importance. The tree now exists in this country, | heal and a paralytic motion of the legs, acquired i чт) | most experienced porsns n tho country goes, is almost 
aving been ed by Veitch, with whom it Astillero, has cease TES TE refreshed к s imperishable istur a proof of which the 
has borne the last trous winter without the | return for another cargo, ко ЫН Й ч prie | railway баа midi, саба йз ч of some years, have 
slightest injury; a circumstance that excites по | Шш ads b p B d) до longer. ts third trip is after- | ms termined to lay € all о sleepers of s wood, 
surprise when we recollect that it found by Lobb bos M: ts f timber lani d have made ract to a very large extent for 
forming forests up to the snow line on the Co: Mora | illero, whore A Y nes) as pieces o s Kost nd plank госці it” 
and that its neighbour Fitzroya esca; i like cuarto 3 as large as р ы ашу, Win e 
manner. It proves to bea most useful ornamental |, corn for nex AS soon i the THE REV. PROFESSOR HENSLOW. 
— ig habit de yog e ца гури — t dose walk arents "ist erri E are few men whose loss will be more generally 
growing 1t. 
м 
h “ fastigi iate 
ews н, Swedish Junipers—to | 
my o тен “ die M beautiful green of its 
But it is not merely as a handsome object that 
demands an extended notice. 
utmost 
to th 5 
елт) "the d асе гю of it, which will now be 
bns ith n interest: 
inde who 
Pace side of South n 
timber im; 
€ 
t has co 
that of Captain King in | (he * Vae of "the Adventure 
Bays 
t year. pO 
w miles thei the 
» Astillero, pe beginning with half-boards S ошту, the | дер 
At ab 
| load is increased as they grow stronger. 
they borrow an axe, aid “iab the boar 
зле резу Тһе 
out M 
ds they 
afte 
profitable parts of the forast are | whose 
now, of don course, itii ind og ihe sea than they 
nstant thin 
heth 
red, 
prem "the subject of this notice: пог are these his only 
claims as а benefactor of his race, for there are few 
5 feet from the ground, an re than Т6 fee! 
елш 
were, owing to co g labou 
boards twice as muc E nece was | gratefully acknowledge ed. То gi ive ev еп а Sketch of the 
required for the purpose 30 y о. The largest vere 
Aler: t has been found by any Calbucano, | so blended in deed не 4 as to render him at once 
Ys the last 40 years, эчу угул 30 feet in а. E tho most pobilura an of эбепке of his day, 
d usefu. 
is qui uite im mpossible here, for they 4 epende dona 
each nat 
нн 
f boards and half а gi. 
of individual seen by Mr. Douglas in 
The two ipe 
1 his 
but all val trained and morem d ox me: jv 
mongst 
13H 
"Y 
citet potio which, as Wet i ina pes m ure due 
any above 1 
were quite sound. Report, xe says, that in 
the Cordillera, out; of reach po 
were e аһа 
and characteristic of all Lr of his life: these were 
s ges of truth and fair 
and the Beagle, vol. 1. p. 282, ‚ whe ere he : The there are enormous Alerses, to 40 feet on or even reticence when the f truth was at 
qu 1 80 to 90 feet in height ù to "hort branches ; oma stako were things almost unintelligible to him; a 
which comes from Conce pcion; it is Т in| which the heads of these giants said to rise some | geniality of disposition that rendered him an attractive 
* tablones " or planks, 7 or 8 feet long; 2 inches thick, 40 or 50 feet more. The ете has short Stout A етт fe from c ildhood upwards; temper of 
9 or АМ inches wide; and as it splits y, it is | boughs, and leaves resembling of a Pi h id T Meca known b бн " even by 
of чет size, the latter being | bluish -green hue, but shorter, bine nly half an inch | h e friends; an organisation of brain 
the нт articles of and the 20th of ап inch wide; on each stem there are | that. t rendered al subjecta “ ad éd cally easy of 
Alerse grow: uantities near Calbuco, four rows of these small leaves at opposite sides. In | а а keen lov and of natural 
ce od each that it cannot carrying the load of boards е^ the Astillero to the | К ней ке deu in pies iik it; quick 
except in the 
nearest water conveyance, the native wears a shee perception, excellent wers "E eneralisation, the 
ábove for Th is fe a - à squared, and x Skin on his shoulder. utor a woollen shirt, end larg ges = a а аа of gue nit y or pride, a 
nowa the Ae y lo ogs 0 of 7 or 8 feet | takin; ing a stick, with its lower end forked, to steady him. enance, and a r robust fram Few m men 
tong аз dk ud EN wi { а com- 
UI ND А : to їз ап 7 man, spheres of life, in or 
which state, wi aptis further trimmed. other Е E eA Lus эфа was rend had куены 
tied туд» in пе and carried on men's backs, supports the weight of the burden i that t balance of powers of mind which his University 
or dragged over the signi to the beach. when he shifts itto the other and This | tu i unusual and the 
* ‘The extraordinary straightness of grain in this | half-rest is called cantantun. А. eight, ten, or a dozen ы а accounted for by the Ta 7 hi баз 
tree, enables the natives to split. it, T as i make 5 of these transfers, according to his and the | which they consi ultless. 
appear ag if it ап a state of the road, he casts down his burthen and rests | e ted estimate of the Аннай of [- ош, the 
with a plane ; а аз I have T the axe is е ау а few а is is his descanso, and he — following brief notice of ач 
used. So the aimentiy i of Bos himself thus at about every two or three miles. John Stevens Henslow sí boit oi ie ба, ын; 
враг of this wood, "that wh to | Astillero of Melipulla is 10 descansos, a whole & zb at ay rures тд lis father 
Obtaina new mast for the Adelaide, T Perg: four "n4 distant from the place of embarkation. tor; he was the peel ng бе Эйе, of 
tim. the value of an Alerse si to the natives, eM the difterent forests of а нй бте four si n on res „His entific 
besides the tance]of 20 men and &с. some immense powers and love of na 
i та 
with the assistance of our people, how Terr it might b 
T Jed 
опе ure 
were e. or three ri 
much delay. 
dat odd i 
« "iy bens which these 
IRAE нун quechi 
(атна oue one of бен сес said to ma bout 
down 1000 A This landslip 
messared nearly hal Age аре) half a quarter of 
о 
a mile in wi 
Peer is а further & by Gay, which we 
rrow concisely from Nis Tittle | little known Historia fisica | 
y y politia de Chile, vol. v. 
"This beautiful tifal tree reaches 120, an aud often more, feet 
E A T luxuriant ш its foliage, with thick | 
Roc Dr. Jephson's, 
NI Cemberwell; during the former period he LAS Y 
proof to me that 
ance in v provinces o pde on the hills verging 
from Valdivia to Chiloe. grows very gp m of great 
height, and of such circumfere: nce that five, six, 
hunting f for insects, and in reari: ing th а нне Mu 
their h abi ts. „Апа it was during і the Tatter agre that 
fth сүт IRI 
1 М. 19 delight. in analysing, understanding, and аав 
the 
lled 
xsley, a nati 
Chilóe for ihe government, was 
vory S 
princi 2 for "the floors, рас 
rds and 
rocure. 
onal schooner, "arid hs 
masted with 
e 
answers remarkably well, being. 
when constantly wet, esc 
tt « Spars of Alerse, 80 or 90 feet lon 
cured, And from 800 to 1000 boards худне 
obtained from a single tree; І was "Im 
аз 1500 out of one trunk. 
Island 
бө Straita of M lhaen, in all those 
ward; but from the povi of 
[thero] of very stunted ted growt wth? Ne sitit is 
ihe above information given by Captain King, 
ages and stands th 
e | trunks of this tree having been met 
greatest test of the е atmosphere, | 
equalled that of collecting ; a A thes 
| t] thenceforward the ruling ee of his li 
In 1814 
ш: of the саен 
these trunks h 
e been worked up as easily as 
аы а ch h 
ising of the Indians in 1599, and brige, "a graduated as 16 һ 
newly whioh year also he e join thi 
the 
e was entered at St. John’s College, Cam- 
Wrangler in 1818, in 
a Societ; v Дый 
of c 
t | n p +. i . 
for floorings and ks of vessels, masts and Fellow 
АЙ emis Working tree on the mountains isa most| In 
rious business, occupies e mer 
"about 6000 peo; The export runs 00, to|tary 
,000 i 16 most abounds in Tenglu, Carinel, | of Man ntaining а nd sections, to the prepa- 
Майы, Cohuin, la Boca, &с. In the IT taiyo ration r wnich he had” devoted his „spare time, whilst + 
Calb ер о 
as money in the currency, and ived h ie period the same led him to 
all warehouses, and they have even given a name to the Te A Angli, the geology of ich. s алдену 
f time. For ple—'D sada' | explored, and e prices the results in a most elaborate 
means an hour, and * Cantutun' means а quarter of an piper; , prin he first towel of the” Санан 
ео ача dois rom t| ойт their journeys carry- Philosophical Phal cur: s paper nof only at 
ing these plants, resting ev ; 'Descansada, and | once raised its author to a vet high position, and 
