. Our country: West. the general government,and they are now kept as a National and Worlds Park, heldin trust forever by the state of California for the people of theworld. The reser\ations include the Yosemite THE BIG TREES OF I33 The park is usually inaccessible during the winter andspring, in consequence of the deep snowfall there, but it isvisited during the summer and autumn by tourists from allparts of the world, and especially by people of the OldWorld, who find these trees of very great interest. The wood of these big trees is a variety of the cedar. TheRedwood of
. Our country: West. the general government,and they are now kept as a National and Worlds Park, heldin trust forever by the state of California for the people of theworld. The reser\ations include the Yosemite THE BIG TREES OF I33 The park is usually inaccessible during the winter andspring, in consequence of the deep snowfall there, but it isvisited during the summer and autumn by tourists from allparts of the world, and especially by people of the OldWorld, who find these trees of very great interest. The wood of these big trees is a variety of the cedar. TheRedwood of the Pacific is of the same family. Some of thetrees standing in California are estimated to be between twoand three thousand years old. The heart of the tree is thought to be indestructible bythe decay that is usual in other woods exposed to atmosphericinfluences. This certainly does not rot under ordinary climaticaction. Furthermore, the wood does not shrink like othertimbers, since it contracts from the ends and not from thesides or edges, as is usual with other varieties. * Specimens of these trees are not allowed to be taken bytourists from the National Reservations. Not even a twig, orshrub, or flower is p
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