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Show rpon the American jatEollof EMITE VALLEY. Nearly Destroyed cription of oia." )is one of asmal? as the Tuolumne n miles beyond iteen miles from i group of trees is the tsea level, and ,nd 73 individuals b, some of which ens of tho genus, versified between dmens and others stroyed by soma lous forest confla-ome confla-ome of tho largest this family group ?d by the flames, Ear as firo is con- i One, the "Living '' orthy of inoution. ?et high, of which mrisfiivu trunk is Bcnrcely with an .j-!ii:netrioal beau-foot beau-foot iu diatnoter, Hoqnoia that I 200 yards tho southwest of Giant." The Yore Yo-re passes directly and overhanging isiS Giant." The ug Efimo of this ; he others leading ; ) "Big Oak Flat ' a having its early ,k Flat, famous at cer mining camp et Harte's "Roar- EARS OLD. so and fall of this sequoiadom is as a remains and its , i it had been com-sverlasting com-sverlasting tablet, y conjectural. If upon the consecu-, consecu-, there must have ibout the greatest behemoth to have irs old. To judge uetry of the best , laining of this Tu- I iquoia" must have ' autiful tree, con-1 size. It also may 00 feet high, a, because the se-ting se-ting regarding al-ile al-ile for the species 0 altitude of 200 the larger Bpeci- : forth any large ng a comparative and bulk for that ' denly put out a ghs, which rapid-lee rapid-lee of the shaft, ddenly to a point much as a freshly v excepting for its ave made "Old Se-1 han his neighbors, mce of the winter iable to break off uated tops, with ! foliage, if they ) tho general level t. Still the wood nse, and the en-, sheltered a posi-this posi-this tree may have mmensurate with T MOKS. la" is but a black-mp black-mp on two of its n 100 feet of its rithia himself for . ngh to trump out i appointing result. ixd hint to keep ! a few feet of the ' greatest of all se- j distance of some le remaining im- ; tegins to force it- ns of the behold-reached behold-reached its very ! 'd it, curiosity is 3, upon beholding in its roots,, won- 'j oached from the :lo brook and ini-a ini-a shattered and from the 'great 5 is some 12 feet 7 feet thick, and aining main body it. ;harrod wood Btill owth behind us, tho brook, to tho e have just cross-fell cross-fell from the tree ion, of immense' h other in a solid the piece upon lost the very base , ion. Of this re- j in front of us, is ; S from our stand- : :en off at about le piece is, raeas- j le edges at about : nd, 40 feet in dia-laining dia-laining circuit of te largest remain- we are gazing is' :er and about 165 s fresh and glis-thatof glis-thatof any of its eighbprs. emaining portion 1 by the presence its shattered top four feet or more a thick mass of :oliage. No other upon it, and only nnantsof braach-y braach-y the fire. San j |