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stem, by tapping it and catching the liquid that flowed from the 
wound. 
The Gum Wood does not grow on the central and most elevated 
land where the native cabbage-trees and inhabitants of the 
cooler region are found. Scarcely a tree exists at a greatei alti- 
tude than 1900 feet above the sea; and there is still sufficient 
evidence to show that its habitat was on the now semi-barren slopes 
which stretch away to the sea-coast, and encircle the middle zone 
of the Island — such as Longwood, Deadwood, Man and Horse, 
New Ground, and similar localities. Longwood and Deadwood, 
as their names imply, were originally covered with trees ; nor is 
this the only evidence of their having been abundantly wooded, for 
natives still living on the Island, as well as the records, tell of thick 
woods once covering those now grassy plains. Knowing this to 
be the case, there is no reason to doubt that other parts of the 
Island, which now appear so barren and so unlikely to support 
vegetation, were once also, down to the sea cliffs, clothed with green 
woods, as stated by the early visitors to the Island. Plate 39. 
There are not more than about 1300 or 1400 Gum Wood trees 
remaining in the Island (1868), according to an approximate esti- 
mate, and they are scattered about in the following positions 
Trees 
Longwood, Deadwood, and Lowe’s Gardens, about 700 or 800 
Man and Horse . about 50 
Eastward 
Plantation . . . 
Harpur’s . . . 
Thompson’s Wood 
Hock Cottage . . 
Plantation School 
Valley at Shipway’s 
Valley next to Shipway’s, 
Valley next to Shipway’s 
Valley next to Eock Eose Hill 
Arnos Vale 
Woody Eidge 
Valley between Eock Eose Hill and Green Hill 
Head of the Vein 
Valley between Eock Mount and Peak Dale . 
Valley between Peak Dale and Lufkins . . 
. . 24 
. 2 or 3 
. . 50 
. . 2 
. . 2 
. . 15 
. . 2 
58 or 60 
about 100 
18 or 20 
, . . 3 
, . . 30 
... 2 
about 100 
„ 100. 
