ONE LIVING ONE DEAD 



in the days of Elijah is clearly noted 

 (about 900 years before Christ), also the 

 distressing time caused by aridity in the 

 seventh, eighth and thirteenth centuries, 

 A. D. On these points the tree and the 

 historian agree most completely. 



It is a matter of history that when 

 periods of aridity occur, poverty and dis- 

 tress are prevalent; when rain is abund- 

 ant the opposite condition is noted. The 

 Sequoia Gigantea now growing are found 

 between the thirtieth and fortieth paral- 

 lels of north latitude. The records of the 

 historian of events taking place in this 

 same division of the earth's surface, from 

 California to Asia, agree so perfectly 

 with the records of these trees that one is 

 dumb with amazement. 



Not far from "The Giant" is a tree not 

 quite so large in circumference, but which 

 is badly scarred by fire. Inquiry was 

 made as to the time the fire probably oc- 

 curred. The answer was that Indians 



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