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decks, masts, yards, beams and cabins of vessels, and it is considered as next 
in durability to tbe Long-leaved Pine. The wood from New Jersey and 1 
Maryland is finer grained, more compact, and stronger than that from the 
river Delaware, which grows upon richer lands. 
The Yellow Pine, in boards from 1 inch to 2J inches thick, forms a con- 
siderable article of exportation to the West Indies and Great Britain; in 
the advertisements of Liverpool it is designated by the name of New York 
JPine , and In those of Jamaica by that of Yellow Pine; in both places it 
is sold at a lower price than the Long-leaved Pine of the Southern States, 
but much higher -than the White Pine. 
Though this species yields turpentine and tar, their extraction demands 
too much labor, as it is always mingled in the forests with other trees. 
The value of its wood alone renders it, for the middle and north of Europe, 
the most interesting, except the Red Pine, of the American species. Sir 
A. B. Lambert begins his Latin description of it thus : Arbor mediocris , 
etc. and adds that “ it does not exceed 25 or 30 feet in height, is of a 
spongy consistence, and unfit for building.” 
PLATE CXXXVII. 
A branch with a cone of the natural size. Fig. 1, A leaf. Fig. 2, A seed. 
WILD PINE or SCOTCH EIR. 
Pinus sylvestris, P. foins geminis rigidis, strobilis ovato-conicis, longitudine 
foliorum ; squamis echinatis. 
The Pines of the Old Continent are less numerous than those already 
observed in North America. Among them the Wild Pine is the most 
valuable for the properties pf its wood ; it is, besides, extensively diffused, 
and grows in the most dissimilar soils. 
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