. Errances en Amérique du Sud, au nord-ouest des Etats-Unis et aux Antilles dans les années 1812, 1816, 1820 et 1824 : avec des instructions originales pour la parfaite préservation des oiseaux, etc pour les armoires de l'histoire naturelle . il grand annihilatorde toutes les inventions humaines épargnant la fiscalité et la dette nationale, détruit le moulin, et rien de lui est laissé excepta simple pierre de moulin, mesurant entre cinq et six pieds de diamètre. Le sol où se trouvait le moulin ayant été converti en prairie, cette pierre y a passé inaperçu etinconnu (sauf par le passant haymaker), de la périoddes moulins di

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. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . he great annihilatorof all human inventions saving taxation and the nationaldebt, destroyed the mill, and nothing of it is left excepta single millstone, measuring between five and six feet indiameter. The ground where the mill stood having beenconverted into meadow, this stone lay there unnoticed andunknown (save by the passing haymaker), from the periodof the mills dissolution to the autumn of the year 1813, when one of our nut-eating wild animals, probably byway of winter store, deposited a few nuts under itsprotecting cover. In the course of the following summer, a single nut. 70 BIOGEAPHY. having escaped the teeth of the destroyer, sent up itsverdant shoot through the hole in the centre of theprocumbent millstone. One day I pointed out this rising tree to a gentlemanwho was standing by, and I said If this young plantescape destruction, some time or other it will support themillstone, and raise it from the ground. He seemed todoubt this. In order, however, that the plant might have. ^^K NUT-TREE AND MILL-STONE. a fair chance of success, I directed that it should bedefended from accident and harm by means of a woodenpaling. Year after year it increased in size and beauty, andwhen its expansion had entirely filled up the hole in thecentre of the millstone, it gradually began to raise up themillstone itself from the seat of its long repose. This BIOGRAPHY. 71 huge mass of stone is now eight inches above the groundand is entirely supported by the stem of the nut-tree, which has risen to the height of twenty-live feet, andbears excellent fruit. When I saw it in 1862, however, the tree had been deadfor some time, the millstone having evidently killed it, notby its weight, but by preventing the flow of sap throughthe bark. It would, of course, hav

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