The prevailing trees (I speak only of what I saw) on the east and west branches of the Penobscot and on the upper part of the Alle...gash were the fir, spruce (both black and white), and arbor-vitæ, or "cedar."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The solid and well-defined fir-tops, like sharp and regular spearheads, black against the sky, gave a peculiar, dark, and sombre l...ook to the forest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We had hardly got out of the streets of Bangor before I began to be exhilarated by the sight of the wild fir and spruce tops, and ...those of other primitive evergreens, peering through the mist in the horizon. It was like the sight and odor of cake to a schoolboy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The canoe and yellow birch, beech, maple, and elm are Saxon and Norman, but the spruce and fir, and pines generally, are Indian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In some of those dense fir and spruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a standing night, and every... fir and spruce which you fell is a plume plucked from night's raven wing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »