Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0092
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we were not after this visit we proceeded & soon met with another town with but few inhabitants above this the banks of the river were compleatly cloathd with the finest timber my Eyes ever beheld of a tree we had before seen but only at a distance in Poverty bay & Hawks bay thick woods of it were every where upon the Banks every tree as streight as a pine & of immense size still the higher we came the more numerous they were about 2 leagues from the mouth we stopd & went ashore our first business was to measure one of these trees the woods were swampy so we could not range far we found one however by no means the largest we had seen which was feet in circumference & in hight without a branch but what was most remarkable was that it as well as many more that we saw carried its thickness so truely up to the very top that I dare venture to affirm that the top where the first lowest branch took its rise was not a foot less in diameter than where we measurd which was about 8 feet from the ground we cut down a young one of these trees the wood provd most heavy & solid too much so for mast but would make the finest