The Naturalist . thesea, in six or ten fathom water. The lobsters creep into this forthe sake of the bait, but are not able to get out again. The rivercrawfish differs little from the lob:^ter, but that the one will liveonly in fresh water, and the other will thrive only in the sea. Buffons JVatural History. THE WHITE OAK. Quercus alba. Throughout the UnitedStates and Canada, this treeis known by the name ofWhite Oak. The environsof a small town of TroisRivieres in Canada, latitude46^ 20, and the lower partof the river Kennebeck, in thestate of Maine, are the mostnorthern points at which thist
The Naturalist . thesea, in six or ten fathom water. The lobsters creep into this forthe sake of the bait, but are not able to get out again. The rivercrawfish differs little from the lob:^ter, but that the one will liveonly in fresh water, and the other will thrive only in the sea. Buffons JVatural History. THE WHITE OAK. Quercus alba. Throughout the UnitedStates and Canada, this treeis known by the name ofWhite Oak. The environsof a small town of TroisRivieres in Canada, latitude46^ 20, and the lower partof the river Kennebeck, in thestate of Maine, are the mostnorthern points at which thistree grows. Thence, wetrace it along the sea shore toa distance beyond Cape Can-naveral, latiiude 26 degrees,and westward from the oceanto Illinois, an extent of morethan twelve hundjed milesfrom north-east to 1 A ieuf. Fig-. 2. The fruit. It is, however, by no means equally diffused over this vast tract; in the state of Maine, Ver-mont and Lower Canada, it is little multiplied, and its vegetation. The JVhitt Oak. 217 is repressed by the severity of the winter. In the lower part ofthe Southern States, in the Floridas and Lower Louisiana, it isfound only on the borders of the swamps with a few other trees,which, likewise, shun a dry and barren soil. The white oak isobserved also to be uncommon on lands of extraordinary fertility,like those of Kentucky and Tennessee, and of all the spaciousvalleys watered by the western rivers. It abounds chiefly in theMiddle States, particularly in that part of Pennsylvania and Vir-ginia which lie between the AUeghanies and the Ohio, a distanceof about one hundred and fifty miles, where nine-tenths of the for-ests are frequently composed of these trees, whose healthful ap-pearance evinces the favorable nature of the soil. East of themountains, this tree is found in every exposure, and in every soilwhich is not extremely dry or subject to long inundations; but thelargest stocks grow in humid places. In the western districts,where i
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