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Identifier: allwesternstates00bar (find matches)
Title: All the western states and territories
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Barber, John W(arner) and Howe, Henry. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio., Howe's subscription book concern
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d. A second attempt with another tree was successful, and it was forcedover, and fell with a crash which made everj^thing tremble, and which reverberatedfar and near through the mountains and forests. The solid trunk snapped in sev-eral places like a pipe-stem. The top of the stump is as large as the space lengih-2inse between the walls of two parlors, Avith folding doors, of fifteen feet each.Imagine the side walls spread apart to double their width, and then the stumpwould fill all the space ! I?ut at the roots, seven feet lower, it is much larger. Hercules is the largest perfect standing tree, and it has been computed tocontain seven hundred and twenty-five tlionsand feet of lumber, or enough to loada large clipper ship. It leans remarkably toward one side, so that the top is from CALIFORNIA. 485 forty to fifty feet out of the perpendicular. Tt sliould have been named TheLeaning Tower. It is thirty-three feet between two roots that enter tiie groundnear opposite sides of the trunk.
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Mammuth Tree Grove, in the VaUei/ of the Calaveras. Tlie frees are evergreens and ninety-four of them are yet standing, mnny of which rise to more t>i;ir.3<I0 feet ill bight. One, which lias bhiwn down, measurer! 110 feet in circnnifeience, and was 450 hi^li.Another, which had fallen and is liolhiw, is ridden through on horsebacU fur 75 feet. ?(inie of them areestimated to he more than 3,000 years old. The bark is nearly two feet thick, and being porons is used f.Tpincnshions. Tlie Husband and Wife seem very affectionate, leaning toward each other sothat their tops touch. They are two hundred and fifty_feet hiirh, and si.xty each incircumference. The Family Group consists of two very large trees, the fatherand mother, with a family of groicnup children, twenty-four in number, aroundthem, all large enough to be of age and to speak for themselves ! Jhe fatlier blev7down many years ago, having become feeble from old age. The trunk is liollow a.sit lies upon the ground, and would ac

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