JANUARY. 
15 
and air, divides near the bottom^ into several leading 
branches, which continue to grow upward to a great length, 
dividing and subdividing into many smaller ramifications, 
which pursue the same upward direction, gradually spread- 
ing outwards, which gives the tree a broad and some- 
what flattened top, while all the other trees are conical 
or rounded. In the forest, the elm is the most lofty of 
ELM (Uhnus Americana) in the forest. 
