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Excerpt from The North American Sylva, or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, Vol. 2: Considered Particularly With Respect to Their Use in the Arts, and Their Introduction Into Commerce; To Which Is Added a Description of the Most Useful of the European Forest Trees, Illustrated by 156 Coloured Engravings Of the eight remaining species, which are natives of the New world, one belongs to the West Indies, and seven to the United States: others will perhaps be discovered in the Floridas and in the country west of the Mississippi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.