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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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at thehotels, put up in wooden frames and covered with moss— some of them a foot and a half or more in length.But the Grizzly Giant must not detain us too long ; forthere are several hundicd more Sequoias to be seen, and,as a punster suggested, a Big-treatise might be writtenon the Mariposa Grove alone. As we pass from the Lower to the Upper Grove, thesetrees become more and more numerous among the pinesand firs, until at last we come to a genuine grove ofSequoia giganteas, — a real forest cathedral. There is aflutter of excitement as we approach the Tunnel Tree,or Wawona (which is Indian for big tree), throughwhich the stage drives as it stands, with horses, passen-gers, and all. The diameter of this tree at the groundis twenty-seven feet, or three feet less than the GrizzlyGiant; the tunnel hj which we go tlu-ough it is tenfeet high and from six to ten feet wide. Just as wedrive into it, a poetic youth exclaims to his fair com-panion, Now look out for spiders ! and others of the
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I!I(; THEE — VdSKMITE \ALLEY. SANTA BxVKBAEA AND THE YOSEMITE. 105 same class must nave passed tlirougli before, for namesare written on the inside, and even visiting-cards tackedon. The wood chopped out here was of course madeinto relics and sold years ago, yet paper knives andother things made of it are still to be had in the grovein quantities to suit. At a little log cabin, occupied by the guardians of thegrove, the stage stops again, and the venturesome climbup the prostrate trunk of a fallen monarch, on a ricketyladder. The upper part of the trunk is rotten, andresembles the hull of a wrecked ocean steamer. It oncetook five men three weeks to fell one of these giants;and even after the connection of the trunk with thestump had been severed, it took three days of wedge-driving before the tree could be made to fall. Imagine,therefore, the force of wind required to throw over sucha tree, and the nerve of Ancbew Jackson Smith, whoonce remained in the hollow of one of them, known a

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