CHAPTER XXXVII. 
NEW ZEALAND TREES. 
THE KAURIE, OR COWDIE PINE (Dammara Australis), 
Is a native of and is found only in New Zealand. It is 
most plentiful about the middle part of the northern 
island, where there are very extensive forests of it, but it 
is only moderately abundant a little farther south, and 
towards Wellington, and in the middle island, it is only 
sparingly met with. 
It isa tall and very handsome tree, with a slightly 
tapering stem, and reaches, in sheltered situations, a 
height of 100 to 140 feet, with a circumference of from 
9 to 15 feet ; and even much larger specimens are occa- 
sionally met with. At Wangaroa, a little to the north- 
ward of the Bay of Islands, I measured one that was 
48 feet in circumference at 3 feet from the ground. It 
was a well-grown, healthy-looking tree, with a heavy 
cluster of branches thrown out at about 66 feet from the 
base, and these, spreading obliquely, covered a large 
space. Many others approximating in dimensions to 
this magnificent specimen were seen, but the largest 
that I ever met with was one standing near to Mercury 
Bay, which measured 80 feet to the branches, and 72 feet 
in circumference. 
