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 the dark hadines of the trees, form a olemn but delightful cene for contemplation.

The trees in the woods are of uncommon height, and by far exceed in loftines the tallet trees in England. In this iland their tops eem to touch the clouds, which appear as if kimming wiftly over their upper branches; and looking up the trees is painful to the eye. Many of the trees are likewie of enormous girt, and their preading boughs extend far around; thoe of the fig-tree epecially, under whoe inviting hade hundreds at a time may repoe themelves, without fear of being wet by the heaviet hower of rain, or dread of the influence of the corching un-beams.

In the woods the trees are, in common, covered with different foliage, o that it is uual to ee one tree dreed out with the rich liveries of everal, all growing in beautiful variety: