. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. t of tlio it HluilHi x)V troos re p;ono- 'his troo ? its way Britiiin, Uho best [)lit pino, ^vn out of brest, tho reslnosa). )e, and is 0 paint in hese trees perior sizo roots and and eoni- |eh-pinG "; are nuicli Igrows to a lmon<jr the FOnfCSr TL'KES. 277 measuro. Tlie timber, thouf^li soft and inferior for •general eari)enterin_u; pur|)osos, is tho mos
. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. t of tlio it HluilHi x)V troos re p;ono- 'his troo ? its way Britiiin, Uho best [)lit pino, ^vn out of brest, tho reslnosa). )e, and is 0 paint in hese trees perior sizo roots and and eoni- |eh-pinG "; are nuicli Igrows to a lmon<jr the FOnfCSr TL'KES. 277 measuro. Tlie timber, thouf^li soft and inferior for •general eari)enterin_u; pur|)osos, is tho most (hnablo of all \vt)0(l when iinmersi'd in water; it is therefore used in buildinf^ wiiarfs. Jlendoelv {^em-rally ^rows on un(lulatin<; hind, niix(;d up with birch, bcceli, maph', and other iiard wood; and th(; sctth'r looks u[)on it as an indication of «^ood soil. There are two sjieeies of spruce in tiie Canadian forest, tho white spruce (A. alba) and tho blaelc {A. nigra); also a variety of tho lattiM*, calliMl by tho Indians "skunk s[)ru(.'e," from its smell. The spruce is excellent wood, and grows i'l iinniense ipiantities all over Catuula. It constitutes tne main arti(do of hunber in certain districts out of which the pine has all been culled. The lumberers raft it dt)wn to tho sawmills in logs, where it is manu- factured into deals, boards, cla})-boards for walls of houses, laths, and twenty other things. The black spruce grows on rough and rocky places, and is in general a mark of bad or indifferent land ; the white spruce grows mixed up with hardwood and pine on a better description of land. The bark of the white spruce can be peeled off in the month of June with the greatest ease, and is used by the back settlers for roofing barns and shanties. The sportsman camping out in tho summer knows the valuf3 of this bark in wet weather. From the young twigs of the black spruce spruce-beer is made, an abominable concoction, said however to be wholesome. The ro
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