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Show t' AMERICAN FORESTS. T5e Fluent Thnt Ever1 Grew on the Earth. ; The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best He ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and it seemed to be favored frcra the beginning a?bove all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe. To prepare the ground, it was rolled cud ;uled in seas with infinite in-finite loving deliberation and forethought, fore-thought, lifted into the light, sub- merged and warmed over tuna over iigain, prcsfccd and crumpled into folds ui.d ritlyep, mountains and hills, sub soiled with heavier volcanic ' fires, plowed and frrour.d and sculptured into scenery . and soil with glaciers and rivers every feature growing1 and changing from beauty to beauty, higher high-er and higher. And in the fullness of time it was planted in groves, ond bells, sud the largest, moat varied, most fruitful, fruit-ful, and rriot bread, exuberant, mantling man-tling forest, with beautiful trees, in the world. Bright tr-aa made its border with wave embroidery and icebergs; rr.flguificcnt d'crls were outspread in tlu; middle rf it, xncrsy tundras on the ...;th, Lincuiuu; on the couth, and |
