Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-08-15
CEDARs OF CALIFORNIA.

AS itHN1h1 /" ga tfhtN @N~'atst oa ktsS AaAA-
mense cedars Of California, the greatest
trees in the world. One Of them, which
had been felled, he ascerained, by count
ing the grains oflhe stump, to be twelve
hundred and eighty years old. When
Mahomet was at HuFse this tree was
lsprouting. He says
at is forest, yet nothing that we mean
by forest. There i no underground,
scarcely anywhere a rock the surface
are as beaatifuIIy turned as If shaped by
a landscape gardener, and dotted all over
by mt triads of flowers, more delicate, IL
not more various than any garden ever
grew. Moving along these surfaces,
rounding over hill, or galloping through
some silent valley winding here among
the native oaks casting their round shad-
ows, and here among all pines and cedars
drawing their huge conical shapes on the
ground, we seem in fact, to be riding
through some vast Park. Indeed, after
we had seen the trees and taken their inn
pressions, VIC could think of nothing but
to call it the park Of the Lord Almighty.
The other trees we observed were in
creasing in size as we nea, ed the plaes,
till finslly7 descending gently along
western slope among the files Of little
giants, emerging into the cleared ground
of the Big Tree Hotel between the two
sentinels, which are 500 feet high, and
stand only f;sr enough apart for the mar
row road to pass between These we're
the first of the Washington cedars we had
seen; it really seemed that we had never
seen tree before. And yet they were
only medium specimens.
Close by the house lay the first cut oi
the Big Tree par eminence the remain
; ing part, or top, hsf been split up and re,
moved. Near this first cut stood the
stump, about six feet high with an arbol
mounted on the top which had beer
squared down for this purpose, the posts
of the arbor standing out in the line of the
! largest circuit at the ground, and the
space between them and the circuit of tht
top filled in by a floor of short boards
The diameter Of the top is by measure
ment twenty-five feet one way, and twen
ty-three and one-half feet the other. The
diameter, at the ground was thiEx-ono
feet. They are all included in spac,
of fifty acres, and are only about ninety
in number. The ground occupied is ;
! rich wet bottom, and the foot of the mois
d, northern slope adjacent, covered also witt
an underground, a0hy are they heye, jas
here, and no aohere eLse? This, confess
is TO me the greatest, strangest wonder o
all, that no where in the whole earth i
there another known example of thes,
: Anakims of the forest, ninety seeds alon,
" have been started, ninety and no more
: Is there, was there no other piece o
" ground but just this, in the whole world
that could fitly take the seeds of such
" growth Why have they never spread
why has. no one seed of the myriads the.
!, sprinkle every year on the earth, eve
u started in any other locality?
Of And what a starting it is, when sue
a seed of life begins to grow. Little di
e that tinny form of matter about the siz
n of parsnip seed, and looking more 81
4! it than any other, imagine what it wa
y, going to do, what feelings to excite whe
m it started the first sproutings of the Bi
a Tree We measured an enormous suga
le pine recently felled. Sixty feet from tn
n ground it was six feet in diameter, and
,ft was two hundred and forty feet hisl
IN We measured one of the PROSTATE giant
te and two hundred and forty feet from ii
AL EihAiih ~ NstS eiE% ttHt ~ AshhtCArEE i y
ds top was gone, but it could not have bee
10 less three hundred and fitty feet high, au
on yet this tree was only eighteen fees
nd diameter where the Big Tree was twei
be ty-ave. Ii the Big Tree were hoIlowe
IS one might drive the largest load of ha
he through it without even brush Of col
ar, tact.
"a Many Of the trees and all the large
sw Of them that renain are greatly iniun
of By Gre. There time is therefore shoI
nd Fened, and long time viii be required
H. bring the smaller ones to their maxiFnu
a Of growth. That man inslisaied
i'm the internal love Of money, should la
for cut down the biggest Of them, and skinn
re the next, one hundred and twenty feet U
, n wards FROM The ground, (yiz:, the Mo,
er) that he might show or sell the ba
Of her body, both sound as a rock as /
sa- heart, and good for thousand years
NY come--0 II suFpasses all contempt a
NC yet 10 seethis Giant Mogher siill urowi
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