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WOOD AXU FOREST. 



The big tree, Fig. 54, occurs exclusively in groves, which, however, 

 are not pure, but are scattered among a much larger number of trees 

 of other kinds. 



Fitr. S3, l>'i-(1w()(Kl Forest. SaiU^i Cruz Co.. C:ilif. f. .V. F„r,:il \,rzir. 



The great and unsurpassed Pugot Sound forest is destined to be 

 before long the center of the lumber trade of this country. 



These two great forests of tlie east and the west both run north- 

 ward into British America, and arc there united in a broad belt of 



