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

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The Pines.--White Pines: rank claimed for this Variety.--Predilections. --Comparison instituted.--Pitch and Norway Pines.--White Pine.-- Magnitude.--New York Pines.--Lambert's Pine on Northwest Coast.-- Varieties.--Its Rank.--Great variety of purposes to which it is devoted.--Great Pine near Jackson Lake.--Capital Invested.--Hands employed on the Penobscot 37