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Title: Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton, 1824-1903
Subjects: Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865 Indians of North America Ethnic groups Law
Publisher: New York, Chicago, F.H. Revell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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these monster trees, and not choosing to build around it,
they cut through it, thus forming a tunnel, the like of
which can only be found in the Mariposa grove. The
diameter of the tree being over thirty feet, there remained
an abundance of material on each side of the cut to retain
the tree in a standing position, and the hole ten feet high
and twelve feet wide is sufficiently large to allow the pas-
sage of any coach or team."
"In the South Park and Calaveras groves there are somere
markable trees. One tree in the South Park grove will
hold forty persons in the hollow of its trunk; another has
sheltered sixteen horses. The four highest trees in the
Calaveras grove, are the Keystone State, 325 feet high,
Gen. Jackson, 319 feet. Mother of the Forest, 315 feet, and
the Daniel Webster of 307 feet high. The Husband and
Wife are a pair of trees gracefully leaning against each
other, 250 feet high, and each sixty feet in circumference.
The Hermit is a solitary specimen of great proportions;
the Old Maid, a disconsolate looking spinster, fifty-nine
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THE TUNNELLED TREE.

AND INDIAN WAR OF 1851. 341

feet around, and the Old Bachelor, a rough, unkempt old
fellow nearly 300 feet in height. The Father of the
Forest is prostrate, hollow, limbless and without bark;
yet across the roots the distance is twenty-eight feet. * *
Into the tree a tourist can ride ninety feet on horseback.
One of the largest trees of the Calaveras grove was bored
down with pump augurs, and the stump smoothed off and
converted into a floor of a dancing hall. Thirty-two per-
sons, or four quadrille sets, have ample room to dance at
one time, and yet leave room for musicians and spectators.
I can give my readers no better idea of the solemn im-
mensity of the trees, than by again quoting Mr. Whitehall.
He says in conclusion: "Although it was then June, yet
the eternal snows of the mountains were everywhere around
us, and, as the huge banks and drifts stretched away off in
the distance, the melting power of heat and the elements
was on every side defied. Not a weed or blade of grass re-

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