FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
ties that are connected with their sur- 
rounding’s or their characteristic habits 
of growth. 
One of the commonest attributes of 
such forests is their grandeur; partly 
inherent and in part also derived from 
the sublimity of their surroundings. 
Their situation is often in the midst of 
wild and picturesque mountain scenery, 
where they find a proper setting for 
their own majestic forms among crags 
and precipices and on the great shoul- 
ders of mountains; where powerful 
winds and severe snows test their en- 
durance and strength. It is here that 
we chiefly find those awe-inspiring dis- 
tant views that harmonize so well with 
the evergreen forests. The trees spread 
over the mountains for miles and miles 
in closely fledged masses, and become 
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