114 GIGANTIC TREES OP CALIFORNIA, 



Wellingtonia. 



By its fall, this tree has overthrown another not less 

 colossal, since, at the origin of the roots, it is 40 feet 

 in diameter. This, which appears to me one of the 

 greatest wonders of the forest, and compared with 

 which man is but an imperceptible pigmy, has been 

 hollowed by fire throughout a considerable portion 

 of its length, so as to form an immense wooden tube 

 of a single piece. Its size may be imagined when it 

 is known that one of my companions, two years ago, 



