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Show Fine Mahogany Trees A recently discovered species of mahogany ma-hogany of gigantic size exists on the western coast of Panama at the Sac Lorenzo river, and the American museum mu-seum bird-hunting expedition of Ludlow Lud-low Griscom and three assistants found It to be one of the commonest trees of the primeval forest of that little-known region, according to Oie Baltimore Sun. One superb specimen proved to be 7 feet in diameter, 6 feet from the ground and to measure 152 feet from the base to the first limb. The perfectly per-fectly symmetrical trunk, which Is illustrated il-lustrated in natural history, had all :he grandeur of a cathedral column. Though less shapely, other trees were ever, larger and one had a diametei of 13 feet at G feet from the ground. The forest abounded in wild life, at least 200 species of birds occurring In tlx vicinity. |