ONE LIVING ONE DEAD 



The yearly growth shows by its width 

 the dry year as well as the one when rain 

 was abundant, and so closely do they 

 compare with the growth of trees of the 

 same species today, that I conclude that 

 the geniality of the earth at that time was 

 about as it is now, long before succeed- 

 ing "Ages of Ice" covered portions of the 

 earth's surface. 



These trees grew in about the same 

 location as to latitude, which was about 

 36 degrees North, as do the living trees 

 of the same species today many miles to 

 the east. They have been elevated dur- 

 ing their Stone Age to a height of 5,700 

 feet above sea level, but during their life 

 they, as their successors, grew and flour- 

 ished at a low altitude. 



I can offer no explanation or find any 

 satisfying reason for the breaking of these 

 trunks into cross sections, except that I am 

 convinced from a close observation of the 

 "bridge tree" that could we undermine 



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