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bushels) and of other grains, wheat, barley, and rye, 15,369 koku (79,000 

 bushels). These quantities are quite insufficient to sustain the popula- 

 tion, which draws its principal supplies from the main island of Japan. 

 The island is well wooded. The spruce, chestnut, walunt, mountain 

 ash, beech, birch, elm, maples, and pines are the most common trees. 

 The maples in the north belong to the large-leaved variety, and are not 

 the same as those of the main island of Japan, the leaves of which are 

 very small. In many parts there is a thick, almost impenetrable under- 

 growth of scrub bamboo, scarcely exceeding 3 to 4 feet in height, but 

 very unpleasant for the traveler. In the forests, one passes through 

 mile after mile of this luxuriaut growth, along narrow trails which can 

 be followed only by an almost imperceptible depression in the general 

 level of the green tops. 



SKETCH 

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Fig. 68. 



