ll4 GIGANTIC TREES OF 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, 
