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added, that Birbeck, in his Notes on America, 

 page 102 — 3, gives a very intelligible pic- 

 ture of the forest of that country, and 

 thereby conveys the strongest proof of the 

 accuracy of the foregoing opinions on the 

 growth of timber. " Yet the view of that 

 noble expanse (the Ohio) was like the opening 

 of bright day upon the gloom of night, to us 

 who had been so long buried in the deep forest." 



"To travel, day after day, among trees 

 one hundred feet high, without a glimpse of 

 the surrounding country, is oppressive to a 

 degree which those who never experienced 

 cannot conceive." 



His (the hunter's) visible horizon extends 

 no further than the tops of the trees which 

 bound his plantation : perhaps five hundred 

 yards upwards he sees the sun, the sky, and 

 stars, but around him is eternal forest." 



In his general habits, the hunter ranges 

 as free as the beast he pursues, still he is in- 



