WHAT THE COUNTRY LOOKS LIKE 
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though they have also a look of the Scotch pine and are actually in their 
natural relationship allied to the cypress. Their trunks are straight and the 
outer bark is often bleached white ; the wood is the tint of a cedar pencil. The 
foliage which on the older trees grows in scant tufts (leaving a huge white 
skeleton of sprawling branches) on the younger trees is abundant, bluish-green 
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below and the dark, sombre green of the fir tree above. The extremities of 
each branch have a pretty upward curl. 
Much of the undergrowth of these cedar woods is a smaller species of 
Widdringtonia with a lighter green foliage, most gracefully pendent and starlike 
in each cluster of needles. 
Oh! the deep satisfying peace of these cedar woods. The air is thick with 
the odour of their wholesome resin. The ground at our feet is a springy 
