. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. The sequoia is a representative of a family of trees, re-lated to the cypresses, whichhas survived from a timemore ancient than almostmy other family of trees. Its nearestrelative is in Japan. The name wasgiven by the botanist, Asa Gray, inhonor of Sequoyah, the Cherokeechieftain. Besides the S. gigantea,there is still another species, the , which exists in forestsalong the seaward side of the CoastRange from San Franci
. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. The sequoia is a representative of a family of trees, re-lated to the cypresses, whichhas survived from a timemore ancient than almostmy other family of trees. Its nearestrelative is in Japan. The name wasgiven by the botanist, Asa Gray, inhonor of Sequoyah, the Cherokeechieftain. Besides the S. gigantea,there is still another species, the , which exists in forestsalong the seaward side of the CoastRange from San Francisco bay north-ward for over ioo miles. It is theseforests which furnish the celebratedredwood lumber; and an illustratedarticle by Ernest Ingersoll, in Har-pers Magazine for 1882, gives anadmirable account of the lumberingoperations by which these mighty treesare utilized, and of the interestingscenes in and about the region in whichthey grow. Many specimens of theredwood rival their big cousins nearYosemite in size, and the whole forestwill average 250 feet in height, wherefull grown. BIG TREES OF CALAVERAS. FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO THE GREATNORTHWEST. KALE
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