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Excerpt from In the Temperate Regions: Or Nature and Natural History in the Temperate Zones The Dominion of Canada contains millions of acres of fertile soil, covered with mighty forests. Upper Canada, says a writer, is the most fertile, and in many respects is one of the most valuable, of the British colonies in the west every European grain, and every plant that requires a hot summer and can endure a cold winter, thrive there. The forest consists chiefly of black and white spruce, the Weymouth and other pines - trees which do not admit of undergrowth 3 they grow to a great height, like bare spars, with a tufted crown casting a deep gloom below. The fall of large trees from age is a common occurrence, and not without danger, as it often causes the destruction of those adjacent and an ice-storm is awful. When a heavy fall of snow has taken place, succeeded by rain and a partial thaw, the trees and all their branches are quickly crusted with glittering ice 3 oak and pine bend beneath the burden, and the icicles pendent from every bough drop in radiant showers at the lightest breath of wind. The hemlock-spruce, with its long drooping branches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.