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Page 71 - No. 12 of the division of forestry of the United States Department of Agriculture, in treating upon the economical designing of timbers in trestles.
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Page 53 - ... almost all of these genera of trees were well represented in Europe throughout the later Tertiary times. It had not only the same generic types, but in some cases even the same species, or what must pass as such, in the lack of recognizable distinctions between fossil remains and living analogues. Probably the European Miocene forest was about as rich and various as is ours of the present day, and very like it. The Glacial period came and passed, and these types have not survived there, nor returned.