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the length of four hundred and twenty feet, with 

 proportions of width, indicated in a design of a monu- 

 mental structure placed in the Exhibition ; while Mr. 

 G. Klein took the measurement of a Eucalyptus on 

 the Black Spur, ten miles distant from Healesville, 

 four hundred and eighty feet high! Mr. E. B. Heyne 

 obtained at Dandenong as measurements of height of 

 a tree of Eucalyptus amygdalina : Length of stem 

 from the base to the first branch, two hundred and 

 ninety - five feet ; diameter of the stem at the first 

 branch, four feet; length of stem from first branch 

 to where its top portion was broken ofl", seventy feet; 

 diameter of the stem where broken off, three feet ; 

 total length of stem up to place of fracture, three hun- 

 (ired and sixty - five feet ; girth of stem three feet 

 from the surface, forty-one feet. A still thicker tree 

 measured, three feet from the base, fifty-three feet in 

 circumference. Mr. George W- Robinson ascertained, 

 in the back-ranges of Berwick, the circumference of 

 a tree of Eucalyptus amygdalina to be eighty - one 

 feet at a distance of four feet from the ground, and 

 supposes this Eucalypt, toward the sources of the 

 Yarra and Latrobe rivers, to attain a height of half 

 a thousand feet. The same gentleman found Fagus 

 Cunninghanai to gain a height of two hundred feet 

 and a circumference of twenty-three feet. 



It is not at all likely that in these isolated inquiries 

 chance has led to the really highest trees, which the 

 most secluded and the least accessible spots may still 

 conceal. It seems, however, almost beyond dispute, 

 that the trees of Australia rival in length, though evi- 

 dently not in thickness, even the renowned forest-gi- 

 ants of California, Sequoia Wellingtonia, the highest 



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