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HUON PINE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 957 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PINE , botanical name Dacrydium Franklinii, the most valuable See also:timber See also:tree of See also:Tasmania, a member of the See also:order Coniferae (see See also:GYMNOSPERMS). It is a See also:fine tree of pyramidal outline 8o to See also:loo ft. high, and to to 20 ft. in girth at the See also:base, with slender pendulous much-divided branchlets densely covered with the See also:minute See also:scale-like sharply-keeled See also:bright See also:green leaves. It occurs in swampy localities from the upper Huon See also:river to See also:Port Davey and See also:Macquarie See also:Harbour, but is less abundant than formerly owing to the demand for its timber, especially for See also:ship- and See also:boat-See also:building. The See also:wood is See also:close-grained and easily worked. HU-PEH, a central See also:province of See also:China, bounded N. by Ho-nan, E. by Ngan-hui, S. by Hu-nan, and W. by Shen-si and Szech'uen. It has an See also:area of 70,450 sq. m. and contains a See also:population of 34,000,000. Han-kow, Ich'ang and See also:Shasi are the three open ports of the province, besides which it contains ten other prefectural cities. The greater See also:part of the province forms a See also:plain, and its most noticeable feature is the Han river, which runs in a See also:south-easterly direction across the province from its See also:north-See also:westerly corner to its junction with the Yangtsze Kiang at See also:Hankow. The products of the Han valley are exclusively agricultural, consisting of See also:cotton, See also:wheat, See also:rape See also:seed, See also:tobacco and various kinds of beans. See also:Vegetable See also:tallow is also exported in large quantities from this part of Hu-peh. See also:Gold is found in the Han, but not in sufficient quantities to make working it more than barely remunerative. It is washed every See also:winter from See also:banks of coarse See also:gravel, a little above I-ch'eng Hien, on which it is deposited by the river.

Every winter the See also:

supply is exhausted by the washers, and every summer it is renewed by the river. See also:Baron von See also:Richthofen reckoned that the digger earned from 50 to 150 See also:cash (i.e. about 1zd. to 41d.) a See also:day. Only one waggon road leads northwards from Hu-peh, and that is to Nan-yang Fu in Ho-nan, where it fcrks, one See also:branch going to See also:Peking by way of K'ai-feng Fu, and the other into Shan-si by Ho-nan Fu.

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