Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West . art from the Sierra giants torealize what it means. There are three hundredand sixty-five trees in the Mariposa Grove, butMr. Muir thinks that the Giant is the only onethat has reached the zenith of its growth. Theage of such a tree must necessarily be more orless a matter of conjecture, but Mr. Muir countedthe rings of annual growth on a much smallerone which
Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West . art from the Sierra giants torealize what it means. There are three hundredand sixty-five trees in the Mariposa Grove, butMr. Muir thinks that the Giant is the only onethat has reached the zenith of its growth. Theage of such a tree must necessarily be more orless a matter of conjecture, but Mr. Muir countedthe rings of annual growth on a much smallerone which had fallen and proved conclusivelythat it had lived upwards of four thousandyears. In any event, the Grizzly Giant and hishoary companions were flourishing hale andgreen long before authentic records of humanhistory were made, and even before the onceaccepted date of the creation of the world. Astrange sense of awe verging upon reverencecreeps over one as he meditates on these impres-sive facts in the presence of these splendid show to some extent the ravages of a fire thatswept among them some time prior to theirdiscovery by white men, and which was no doubtresponsible for the absence of young trees andundergrowth. 84. GRIZZLY GIANT, MARIPOSA GROVE, CALIFORNIACourtesy Pillsbury Picture Co. THE YOSEMITE The road winds through the grove, givingan opportunity to view the largest trees at closerange. These have been named mainly for thedifferent states, though some of them commemo-rate the visits of distinguished men, includingGenerals Sherman and Grant. At one point theroad passes through the famous archway cut inthe **Wawona, some ten feet square, easilypermitting the passage of the coaches. Wedescend and measure our own pygmy heightbeside the Fallen Monarch, which succumbedto some cataclysm years ago—a vast pronetrunk twenty-eight feet in diameter at the appreciates its great size more fully thanthat of the standing trees of the same dimen-sions. We may cli
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