...polished in manners. The forests of Mindanao contain a great variety of trees, of large size, rising to the height of one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet. Some of their trunks are shaped like buttresses, from which they obtain broad slabs for the tops of...

...chaos, — no tongue can tell, no pen can describe, their marvellous and all-abounding splendours! Huge trees, soaring to the height of one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet; trees whose giant stems shine like the columns of some mystic natural temple ; trees whose branches are thickly...

...chaos, — no tongue can tell, no pen can describe, their marvellous and all-abounding splendours! Huge trees, soaring to the height of one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet ; trees, whose giant stems shine like the columns of some mystic natural temple; trees whose branches are thickly...

...Frederick. I wish you would describe to me a Brazilian forest, papa ; it must be a grand sight. Mr. Alford. Few, if any, spectacles in this world can be grander...with the softest and greenest moss and the brightest lichens ; whose shades are peopled by myriads of rare birds and dazzling insects, and whose widespreading...

...readers have been made familiar with its aspects. They are acquainted with its giant trees, which rise to the height of one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet, and begin to throw off their first branches at an elevation exceeding the whole stature of our European...

...door. The forests of Mindanao contain a great variety of trees, some of which are of large size, rising to the height of one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet. Some of their trunks are shaped like buttresses, similar to those before spoken of at Manilla, from...