Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick

CHAPTER I.

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Trees, how regarded by Lumbermen.--Cedars of Lebanon.--Oldest Tree on Record.--Napoleon's Regard for it.--Dimensions.--Durability of the Cedar, how accounted for.--The Oak.--Religious Veneration in which it was held by the Druids.--The Uses to which their Shade was appropriated.--Curious Valuation of Oak Forests by the Ancient Saxons.--The Number of Species.--Its Value.--Remarkable old Oak in Brighton.--Charter Oak.--Button-wood Tree.--Remarkable Rapidity of its Growth.--Remarkable Size of one measured by Washington.--by Michaux.--Disease in 1842, '43, and '44.--The Oriental Plane-tree --Great Favorite with the Ancients.--Cimon's Effort to gratify the Athenians.--Pliny's Account of its Transportation.--The Privilege of its Shade a Tax.--Used as an Ornament.--Nourished with Wine.--Hortensius and Cicero.--Pliny's curious Account of one of remarkable Size 13