Glimpses of our national parks .. . eet or more in tlie air 20 OUR NATIONAL PARKS. In iuUlition to its many other attractions, tlie Yosemite NationalPark contains three groves of sequois, the celebrated Big Trees ofCalifornia. One of these trees, the Grizzly Giant, has a diameter feet and a height of 204 feet. IV A THE SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK Special Characteristic: Largest and Oldest Trees in the World XD they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose topmay reach unto is recorded, in the eleventh chapter of Genesis, the buildingof the Tower of Babel. While this t
Glimpses of our national parks .. . eet or more in tlie air 20 OUR NATIONAL PARKS. In iuUlition to its many other attractions, tlie Yosemite NationalPark contains three groves of sequois, the celebrated Big Trees ofCalifornia. One of these trees, the Grizzly Giant, has a diameter feet and a height of 204 feet. IV A THE SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK Special Characteristic: Largest and Oldest Trees in the World XD they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose topmay reach unto is recorded, in the eleventh chapter of Genesis, the buildingof the Tower of Babel. While this tower was doubtless still standing,and a hundred years or two before the birth of Abraham, a tiny seedin the warm soil of a mountain slope on quite the opposite side of theworld thrust into the light of day a slender green spike Avhich wasdestined, during an existence of more than four thousand years, tobecome itself a lofty tower; noble in form, with a physiognomyalmost Godlike, as John Muir puts it, pulsating with life to its top-. Iliotojil-aiih \,y .T. !?:. Kolicrts PicMc IAKTY Among tmk Bk; Tueks o^?^ Skquoia National Pakk OUR NATIONAL PARKS. 21 most leaflet more than three hundred feet above the groitnd, andoiving forth a bal)el of bird song to the accompaniment which thesummer ^Yinds played upon its many millions of tiny leaves. On the stump of this prostrate sequoia tree, one of the noblest ofthe celebrated Big- Trees of California, John Muir counted more thanfour thousand rings, a ring for every year of its life. Its trunk,exclusive of bark, Avas thirtj-five feet eight inches in diameter. Asthe bark of the very largest sequoias is two feet or more in thickness,this giant must have measured forty feet in diameter when it wasstill growing on one of the slopes of the Kings River. LARGEST OF THE MONSTERS In the Sequoia National Park, upon the upper slopes of the SierraNevada in central California, and in the little General GrantNational Park, six miles away and under the sa
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