1. But the vast, virgin forest, extending nearly 100 kilometers along the eastern seaboard would prove to be a treasure-house.

2. But in the next breath he's Anticipating aloud the virgin forest and spectacular cabbage palm a caller has invited him to see.

3. Areas of isolated virgin forest, recently considered inviolable by human disturbance, now are the locales of extensive lumbering, mineral prospecting and mammoth copper mining projects that pollute the adjacent rivers.