C 2 C 2 SYLVA FLOKIFERA. 



Dauphine, and in the forest of Baye, in Pro- 

 vence, which two men could not grasp. 



Of the qualities of the larch wood we have 

 so much to add to what we have already 

 stated, that should any one read our account 

 who has plantations of this timber, and is not 

 yet acquainted with its valuable properties, 

 he will naturally seem to increase in riches as 

 he proceeds from line to line. 



Dr. Anderson says it is possessed of so 

 many valuable qualities, that to enumerate 

 the whole would appear extravagant hyper- 

 bole. 



We have already noticed what the ancients 

 have said of this timber's resisting the flames; 

 in addition to which Mr. Hart observes, that 

 there is perhaps no instance of the cottages in 

 Carniola being set on fire, although their 

 roofs are covered with boards of this wood, 

 and they are so careless as to throw flaming 

 firebrands on them. Matthiolus notices the 

 incombustibility of this wood ; but says, un- 

 willing as it is to take fire, yet it is nowise 

 difficult to burn it in kilns, glass-houses, and 

 furnaces belonging to iron-works, when once 

 the inside of these receptacles is rendered 

 intensely hot. Such is the practice in the 

 iron-works of Stiria and the bishopric of 



