The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-02-26

sold yUu-n0 honey.
"The devil yOas saidnst, ,ii,sSiSt the Nsvjj
Yorker gfNha dldI pay you haadsei laoi!
lars ferl3g ssa sssE iasN sasss3 10 ies1
q" Mod, snoihipg Bnt mud, y seidfnsd tl,s
Yankees andi;'s your Swn fsult that yotl
wouldn't take my worasfdr it'll told yod
Twas nothing but mud,,,sa ossi iraaavglis
,sie0sg 81. - -@=A-sss.sszlll4 Z sas-z g'-sf
The Mighty eedsfs of Catifof.i a. a.
us 81 .assf ,Egp. 81 s.--9--- 3 ~ - ,fes1 w
-rRey. rRnshneIia Of Hartford; wfissi
trom Californiss TO the New Fork Indpcuie
en-, graphic account of the irnehse ckdars
O California, the greatest treesin the world.
one Sa o. them yhchdhsd been ufrlled, lie a,
certshined, by counting the grains Of tlis
stump, 70 be twelve hundred and deigh,y ygsssfs
old, Wifen MohamHed was at nusss, this
Tree ase.. was spropting. ssys the Reverend
sen'sieman'v se''st iVnn'v @FT .aejass basslgEaas hs1
Hisia,sforesi,ayets nothing that we mead
by iorest There is snouE.iergr6wth, scarcs!
ly any where a. rock; the surfacess are a
beautifully turned asi spuded by a land
scnpe gardener, and dotted over by mrysfsisdS
otshswersemore delicate. IL NOT niors vafio6s
than any garden ever grew. g Moyiae along
these surfaces rouudislg overa hill, or daI.
loping through some silent valley. winding
here among the native oaks casting the;r
round shadows, and there. among tall pinsS
and l cedars drawing their huge conical shipes
on the ground, we seen. in fact, to Be riding
through some vast purk, Indeed, aftsr We
had had seen the trees snd had taken their i'm,
preston, we conld think IL nothing but "a
call il the park Of tbs Lord Rlmighty. Tbs
other trees, we obser, ed, were increasing IN
size as we neared the place. till finally, de-,
sceHding gently along a western slcpe
among the. files Of little giants, we came to
the gate Of the real giants emerging into
the clear grounl Of the BIZ Tee Hotel. 81. s
tween the two sentinels, which are i've
hundred feet higb, and stand only far sr enough
apart for the narrow road to pass betweea.
These were the first Of the washington, &c /. !.
dars we hda seen; ii really seemed IL that W. va
had never seen tree before. And YET they,
were only medium specimens. F's - \, :, :
Close BY the house lay the first cut Of Tie.
Big Tree, par sminence; the remaining part !.
Or top had been split up and removed. Near.
this FIRST cut stood the stump, about six feet
high, with an arbor mounted on the ton.
which which had been squared down for this pur-
pose, the posts of the arbor standing out in ID.
the line Of the largest circuit at the, ground.
and the space between them and the circui,
Of the Top filed in BY floor Of short boards. boa d
The daRatef Of the top Is By msasateu,eas lse Il
twenty-five feet one way and twen,y.three ar IN, !,
and one -hslt the other. The dismetee.s y al
the gronnf was thirty one feet. They are ls
all included III space Of fity acres. al n are Y,
only about ninety y number, The ground
occupied is rich wet bottom, and the. DO,
Ofthe moist nofthefn slope adj AGENT, l covered
also with an underground. And asy. t.ne az
they here, Just here, end no Sohszt stss9 This,
! confess, is to me the greatest, sstrahigesi
wonder Of all, that howhere in the whole
EARTH is there another known example ol
these Anaklms Kim of the forest; ninety seedi
aione nave oeen started, nihety and no more
r al VI II /.
Is there was there no other piece Of grount
out just ms in the whole world, that co llt
n'y take the seeds OF such growth! VIII
nas. 'hey never sptead'' why has no one
ss'. .Ae uy''aus 'ney sprinkle every YEA
sue ea,'"' ever sefted' IN any other local
"ys anu ~aa' S.ar'l's1t e, when sucl
a,seea - ','s oessns 90 grow: Little dd the
W 'o y =, ","''er' apou' sne ,slzesof . par
"au 'oohihs - more iise T Z, thar On,
,'"s'' '"'s''e -wha' u waF going to Dc, wha
80, Wnen = Started 'he f,ls sts
p'ooaus o.the Dsg Tree: .s we meeasure' me
s.. ~ s1s 4'.s'ee tecenftly feiied
H'A'y 'eee 'Fom tne gfoard ~ Y was sal sI sfeet i
e.ama'oF. and wastwo hundred and e four Zee
asn. we measured one or the prost.rat
'a"'ss sn"g a"0 nuAufea y ana lorty ise fron
hs g1Ounuh was s'' slE9eet tt.Iu lnu3dEamater! tn
,op was gone oo' = ooold not have bee
Tess 'nan .a'eeanund'ed and fifty feethigh
lana yet TINS tree was onlygeisshteen feet l
u'ama'er' where the Dig Tree was twenty