. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. EPISODES 329 ,iany ;e in " of been e air erous Uixu- rhter, le ob- sight ig the erhcad lonias, stems iner, in ler fin- parties ixe, ap- ,nge the labors, changed sides, and his back is turned to you. The trunk now remains connected only by a thin strip of wood. He places his feet on the part which is lodged, and shakes it with all his might. Now swings the huge log under his Ijaps, now it suddenly gives way, and as it strikes upon the ground its echoes arc repeated through the hummock, and every Wild Turkey
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. EPISODES 329 ,iany ;e in " of been e air erous Uixu- rhter, le ob- sight ig the erhcad lonias, stems iner, in ler fin- parties ixe, ap- ,nge the labors, changed sides, and his back is turned to you. The trunk now remains connected only by a thin strip of wood. He places his feet on the part which is lodged, and shakes it with all his might. Now swings the huge log under his Ijaps, now it suddenly gives way, and as it strikes upon the ground its echoes arc repeated through the hummock, and every Wild Turkey within hearing utters his gobble of recognition. The wood-cutter however, remains col- lected and composed; but the next moment, he throws his axe to the ground, and, assisted by the nearest grape- vine, slides down and reaches the earth in an instant. Several men approach and examine the prostrate trunk. They cut at both its extremities, and sound the whole of its bark, to enable them to judge if the tree has been attacked by the white rot. If such has unfortunately been the case, there, for a century or more, this huge log will remain until it gradually crumbles; but if not, and if it is free of injury or "wind-shakes," while there is no appearance of the sap having already ascended, and its pores are altogether sound, they proceed to take its meas- urement. Its shape ascertained, and the timber that is fit for use laid out by the aid of models, which, like frag- ments of the skeleton of a ship, show the forms and sizes required, the "hewers" commence their labors. Thus, reader, perhaps every known hummock in the Floridas is annually attacked, and so often does it happen that the white rot or some other disease has deteriorated the qual- ity of the timber, that the woods may be seen strewn with trunks that have been found worthless, so that every year these valuable oaks are becoming scarcer. The destruc- tion of the young trees of this species caused by t
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