Western fir trees standing " forty feet without a knot
" have touched Mr. Glover's imagination, as well they might. Of the individual trees that remain most vividly in my mind is a karri in Western Australia. It was being felled when I entered the wood, and everyone guessed its height, and all were under the mark. It was 135 feet to the first bough. What magnificence And what a crash when it fell, to be carried away in small sections by a team of 24 bullocks. How splendid the forest ! But this karri forest and the neigh- bouring jarrah forest and the spruce and birch forests of New foundland and the pine forests of Western America, and the neat Government forests of Germany all left the same impres- sion ; they were silent and birdless. They were, like the Cyclops, infandi, unspeakable as well as speechless.
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