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CONIFEBJE. 



by Douglas, in 1825, who found it growing in immense 

 forests in north-west America, between 43° and 52° north 

 latitude. Within these limits trees of ten feet in diameter, 

 and from one hundred to one hundred and eighty feet 



high, were observed, and he mentions the stump of one 

 upon the river Columbia, which, exclusive of the bark, at 

 three feet from the ground, was of the enormous girth of 

 forty feet. The same traveller speaks of the wood as being 

 firm, heavy, with few knots, of a yellow colour, and not in 

 the least liable to warp. Our figure is from a fine thriving 



