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(_UNITED STATES_) / C. F. GORDON-CUMMING
At last we entered the true forest-belt, and anything more beautiful / you cannot conceive. We forgot our bumps and bruises in sheer delight. / Oh the loveliness of those pines and cedars, living or dead! For the / dead trees are draped with the most exquisite golden-green lichen, / which hangs in festoons many yards in length, and is unlike any other / moss or lichen I ever saw. I can compare it to nothing but gleams of / sunshine in the dark forest. Then, too, how beautiful are the long / arcades of stately columns, red, yellow, or brown, 200 feet in height, / and straight as an arrow, losing themselves in their own crown of / misty green foliage; and some standing solitary, dead and sunbleached, / telling of careless fires, which burnt away their hearts, but could not / make them fall!