. Ralph's scrap book . w. H-^Aijpi NEARING THE YOSEMITE wonderment as scene after scene presented itself on thisfamous drive of twent\-five miles to the Yosemite our course was enclosed in almost impenetrableforests of trees of xarious varieties, the yellow pine being413 the prevailing- variety. Six miles In nil our starting pointwe entered the famous grove of big trees, thirty in captain immediately began to climb one to test itsheight, while the kodak fiend tried in vain to get a wholetree in his camera. The rest of us sat still and recitedsome appropriate lines from
. Ralph's scrap book . w. H-^Aijpi NEARING THE YOSEMITE wonderment as scene after scene presented itself on thisfamous drive of twent\-five miles to the Yosemite our course was enclosed in almost impenetrableforests of trees of xarious varieties, the yellow pine being413 the prevailing- variety. Six miles In nil our starting pointwe entered the famous grove of big trees, thirty in captain immediately began to climb one to test itsheight, while the kodak fiend tried in vain to get a wholetree in his camera. The rest of us sat still and recitedsome appropriate lines from Hill Nye, so impressive was thescene. The caj^tain is a pretty good straddler, but the bigtrees he found invincible. Drove through the tunnel in the famous Dead Giant,now thirtv-one feet in tliameter, although many forest fires have reduced itshuge proportions. Theremains of what is saidto have been the largesttree in the world wephotographed and gazedupon. With much re-gret we left the treesas thev stood, and as-cendeil
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