The finest live-oak trees I have yet seen in the South, stretched away in long avenues on either hand, intersected by cross avenues, and arched with interlacing branches, till the roof over our heads seemed, in living green, a graining, after the pattern of Gothic arches, in some magnificent old cathedral.
Reid describes the grandeur of live-oak trees in the South, likening their arching branches to Gothic cathedral architecture.
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