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HUON PINE , botanical name Dacrydium Franklinii, the most valuable timber tree of Tasmania, a member of the order Coniferae (see GYMNOSPERMS). It is a fine tree of pyramidal outline 8o to loo ft. high, and to to 20 ft. in girth at the base, with slender pendulous much-divided branchlets densely covered with the minute scale-like sharply-keeled bright green leaves. It occurs in swampy localities from the upper Huon river to Port Davey and Macquarie Harbour, but is less abundant than formerly owing to the demand for its timber, especially for ship- and boat-building. The wood
HU-PEH, a central province of 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 area of 70,450 sq. m. and contains a population of 34,000,000. Han-kow, Ich'ang and Shasi are the three open ports of the province, besides which it contains ten other prefectural cities. The greater part of the province forms a plain, and its most noticeable feature is the Han river, which runs in a south
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supply is exhausted by the washers, and every summer it is renewed by the river. Baron von Richthofen reckoned that the digger earned from 50 to 150 cash (i.e. about 1zd. to 41d.) a day. Only one waggon road leads northwards from Hu-peh, and that is to Nan-yang Fu in Ho-nan, where it fcrks, one branch going to Peking by way of K'ai-feng Fu, and the other into Shan-si by Ho-nan Fu.End of Article: HUON PINE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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