trees would grow in the greatest luxuriance, where timber for their fabrics was no expense, where room was abundant and the reward sure.

The heavy timbers, the queer shape of some of the bedrooms and attics, the narrow, crooked passages, and the little unexpected flights of stairs, were all things belonging to a bygone age, of which the pupils were secretly proud, and which caused them to remember the place, and think of it at the time, as being in some way different from an ordinary school.

The principal timber is white-gum of small size, and the cotton-tree (cochlospermum), which sometimes attains the thickness of nine to twelve inches.

The timber used in these implements was generally white or red oak, and was cut and thoroughly seasoned long before it was needed.

The timbers of the bottom are massive beams.

FREDERIKSHALD, a fortified seaport of Norway, 65 m. SE. of Christiania; was burnt in 1826, but handsomely restored in modern style; timber is the main trade; in the immediate neighbourhood is the impregnable fortress of Frederiksteen, associated with the death of Charles XII.

It was a simple contrivance and rude in structure; but the freshly hewn timbers were proof of its virgin newness.

Then the timber,each was a chosen piece; oak, apple, cherry, pine, each tree sent a stick.

Timber is scarce, chiefly small-sized eucalypti; the cotton-tree was observed in a few of the valleys.

The old gray timbers of the dam are the natural resort of every boy or boatman within their reach; some come in pursuit of pickerel, some of turtles, some of bull-frogs, some of lilies, some of bathing.

Timber is an important industry in the NW., and maize and the vine are cultivated in the extreme S.; minerals abound, and include gold, iron (widely distributed), copper (chiefly in middle Urals), and platinum; there are several large coal-fields and rich petroleum wells at Baku.

One opinion is that in summer the "sap is up," while in winter it is "down," consequently winter-felled timber is drier.

The timber was but small, the diameter of the largest, a red gum, 18 inches.

At 3.30 p.m. I left the camp and proceeded to the creek, where the timber party were at work, reaching their bivouac at 7.30; six logs had been cut twenty to twenty-five feet long and twelve to fourteen inches square; the timber is a melaleuca with a broad leaf (Melaleuca leucodendron).

But, in that case, would not the timber be a protection rather than a hindrance to the enemy advancing or stealing forward?