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32, a 20, or a sloop, and one rough spar — in all seven sticks — 

 thirty-four trees were cut down, twenty-seven of which were found 

 defective. When these trees were falling, it was observed that most 

 of them discharged a considerable quantity of clear water, which con- 

 tinued to flow at every fresh cut of the axe. There is no turjoentine in 

 these trees but what circulates between the bark and the body of the 

 tree, and which is soluble in water. It is a very short-grained and 

 spongy kind of timber, and I think fit only for house-building, for 

 which we know it to be very useful. When first cut down, five out of 

 six will sink in water ; the wood is exceedingly heavy. " 



A. imbricata, Pav. Mem. Acad. Madrid, i. 197. Pinus Araucmm, 

 Molin. Chil. 182. Domheya chilensis, Lamb. Diet. ii. 301. Domheya 

 Araucana, E/feusch. Nomenclat. Abies Araucana, Poir. Suppl. v. 35. 

 Abies Columbaria, Desf. Hort. Paris, 212. Colymbea quadrifariay 

 Salisb. in Linn. Trans, viii. 315. Araucaria chilensis, Mirb. in Mem, 

 du Mus. xiii. 49. Araucaria Domheyi, Rich. Conif. 86, t. 2021, 

 Quadrifaria imbricata, Manett. ex Gord. Suppl. 14. Golymbeo^ 

 imbricata, Carr. Conif. ed. 2, 598. 



Habitat. — On the mountains of Southern Chili, between 36° and 

 48° S., in large forests, and at some elevation on the mountains^ 

 where snow and ice remain for a great part of the year. 



Introduced into Europe in 1795. 



A noble tree, growing 150 feet high, and indigenous to Southern 

 Chili, where it is found on the western acclivities of the Andes, often 

 reaching the snow-line, but never more than 2,000 feet below it. The 

 roots are for a long period of the year covered with snow. It forms 

 vast forests in a part of the Andes inhabited by the Araucanians, a 

 people who are said to pride themselves on their name, its signification 

 being frank or free. It is found also in great abundance on the 

 mountains of Caramavida and Naguelbuta in Chili, and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Concepcion. The Corcovada, a mountain that risea 

 opposite Chiloe, is said to be studded from its foot to the snow-line 

 with large groups of these beautiful trees. 



The timber is hard, heavy, durable, yellowish-white, fibrous, and 

 beautifully veined, capable of receiving a high polish, and easily 

 worked. 



The tree is full of a milky-white resin, and the Araucano Indiana 

 eat the nuts, either fresh, boiled, or roasted, and distil from them a 

 spirituous liquor ; dry and prepare a kind of flour and pastry from 

 them, or dry them for winter store, and for trading to Concepcion and 

 Yaldivia, from whence they find their way to Valparaiso and Lima. 

 It is the " Peghuen" or monkey-puzzle of the Chilians, no animal of 

 that kind attempting to climb the trees. 



Dr. Poeppig says such is the extent of the Araucarian forest on the 

 Chilian Andes, and the amazing quantity of the nutritious seeds that 

 each full-grown tree produces, that the Indiana are ever secure from 



