FIR TREE. 
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Scotch Fir. . . Duhamel,Traite des Arbres, 2. p. 133. pi. 30. 
Evelyns Sylva, by Hunter, 1. p. 274. 
Blackw. Herb. t. lgo. 
This tree is one of an extensive genus, well known 
for the great utility of its timber, as well as for the 
resinous substances which it affords. The different 
species for the most part grow to a considerable 
height, and are distributed over Europe, Asia, and 
America. Of the several kinds of pine found in the 
different parts of the world, that which we have 
chosen may be considered as one of the most useful. 
The Scotch fir, or wild pine, grows naturally in 
the Highlands, where the trees propagate them- 
selves, by the seeds which fall from their cones, 
without any care. It must not be understood, 
however, that this tree is confined to the Highlands 
because it has obtained, with us, the name of Scotch 
fir, since it is common in other countries, and from 
thence is likewise called the Russian pine, and the 
pine of Geneva. Large forests of this fir are found 
in Germany, and vast numbers of the species are 
scattered over the Alps, the Pyrenees, the moun- 
tains of Auvergne, and different parts of Switzer- 
land. In both European and Asiatic Russia this 
tree abounds ; we likewise meet with it in Lithu- 
ania, in Poland, and particularly in Norway, where 
hundreds of mills, turned by water, are erected to 
saw its timber into planks. Mr. Coxe has noticed 
this circumstance in his Northern Tour ; in which 
he tells us that there are 136 privileged saw-mills at 
Christiania, and that in the environs of that city the 
