Where its head was we could not see.

We could only, by laying our faces against the bole and looking up, discern a wilderness of boughs carrying a green cloud of leaves, most of them too high for us to discern their shape without the glasses.

We walked up the slope, and round about, in hopes of seeing the head of the tree clear enough to guess at its total height: but in vain.

It was only when we had ridden some half mile up the hill that we could discern its masses rising, a bright green mound, above the darker foliage of the forest.

It looked of any height, from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet; less it could hardly be.