ONE LIVING ONE DEAD 



the return to normal conditions, clearly 

 indicating that in the following ten to 

 twenty years the tree grew as much or 

 more than it had grown in the previous 

 half century. This fact was very inter- 

 esting to me because it clearly gave the 

 reason for the abandonment of certain 

 sections of the country, about that time, by 

 the inhabitants, who were cliff dwellers; 

 also those who had homes on the mesa 

 and at other locations which they had 

 long occupied up to that period. The 

 drouth of this period was widespread 

 as the historian will tell you, also the 

 larger trees in the higher elevations on 

 the mountainside, the Sequoia Gigantea, 

 repeat and tell the same story; in fact, the 

 world's history has been and can be re- 

 read back to the building of the pyramids, 

 from the records in the larger and older 

 trees, as correctly, or even more so than by 

 the historians. 



Wonderful as it may seem, the famine 



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