FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
not speak as deeply and expressively 
as our wilder woods. The necessity 
of it is thrust upon you. It seems, at 
times, as if the free will and perfect 
liberty of the air and rain, of the wind, 
were wanting. 
These forests are crossed by roads 
and are often divided into sections of 
distinct age, kind, and appearance. 
Shrubs, if any, are few. The deer’s 
track is known. The history of these 
trees is known and recorded, and even 
their doom is fixed for a near or dis- 
tant day. 
There is, however, another side to 
this question. Through their very de- 
sign and fitness for an intended object 
the effects that are produced are often 
decidedly pleasing. What these effects 
are will now appear from an examina- 
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