. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . elike plate glass silvered; the Happy Isles where the dividedriver warbles its endless music over tree root and boulder; thefairy loveliness of the Illilouette. You climb to Glacier Point,and at 5 oclock next morning turn out of your warm bed inthe Glacier Point hotel and become one of the blanket Indianson the east porch to see the sun rise behind the Half Domeand pierce the heavens with long darts of flame like the coronaof an eclipse—an utterly thrilling, unforgettable vision. You hav
. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . elike plate glass silvered; the Happy Isles where the dividedriver warbles its endless music over tree root and boulder; thefairy loveliness of the Illilouette. You climb to Glacier Point,and at 5 oclock next morning turn out of your warm bed inthe Glacier Point hotel and become one of the blanket Indianson the east porch to see the sun rise behind the Half Domeand pierce the heavens with long darts of flame like the coronaof an eclipse—an utterly thrilling, unforgettable vision. You have come for three days. You see that it was a mistake,that you should have made it a month. But you will return. Big Trees of California 309 THE BIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA. These are earths largest Hving things, and oldest. You will find them nowhere but in the Sierra only known relatives are the Sequoia Sempervirens, theCalifornia redwoods of the Coast Range mountains. Unlesstransplanted the Sequoia Gigantea, or Washingtonia, as theForestry Service now calls it, does not grow on the TTTE KALLKN MONAIUII. Along the Sierra slopes the Big Trees grow in groves, ofwhich the best known are the Calaveras, South Park, Tuol-umne, Mariposa and Fresno. These may contain anywherefrom 30 trees in the Tuolumne grove, to 1,300 in the Cala-veras. Forests of them are found in the canyons of the Kingsand Kaweah rivers. In the Giant Forest there are said to beover 6,000 trees with diameters of not less than 15 1 5 feet is not a large diameter for a Big Tree; some are 310 Handbook for San Francisco a hundred feet around. In some cases the stage road hasbeen cut through a standing trunk and you can drive throughin a double-decker thoroughbrace. On one of them, fallen,a squadron of cavalry has lined up. They reach a height of340 feet, and even then it invariably happens that the tip hasbeen broken ofF nobody knows how far down, by nobodyknows how many strokes of the jea
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