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sand feet. The same gentleman found Fagus Cunninghami to 
feet. 
see 
beyond dispute, that the trees of Australia rival in length, though 
evidently not in thickness, even the renowned forest-giants of Cal- 
- ifornia, Sequoia Wellingtonia, the highest of which, as far as the 
writer is aware, rise, in their favorite haunts at the Sierra Nevada, 
to about 450 feet. Still, one of the mammoth-trees measured, it is 
amid of Cheops, 480 feet high, which, if raised in our 
colder temperature of Tasmania, nor msing to a warmth less favor- 
able to the strong development of these trees in New South Wales, 
nor ever reduced to that comparative dryness of air which, even to 
me entent in the mountain-ravines of South Australia, is 
experienced. The absence of living gig ntic forms of animal 
life amidst these, the hugest forms of the vegetable world, is all 
ent, any extra- 
ch into which 
not penetrate. This mar- 
velous qui of growth, combined 
si > ener of our trees famed abroad, espe- 
cially so i countries where the supply of fuel or of hardwoods is 
not salty attainable, or where es raeiie shelter, like around the 
cinchona-plantations of India, the early and copious command of tall 
vegetation is of imperative importance. To us here this ought to be 
a subject of manifold significance. I scarcely need refer to the fact, 
that for numerous unemployed persons, the gathering of Eucalyp- 
