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Several of these trees are 1,-iOOor 1,500 years old. 

 One of them that was felled was so large that when 

 its bark was transported . to San Francisco, where it. 

 was put together again to be carried to Europe, it 

 was large enough to accommodate a numerous com- 



Fallen Monarch. 



pany, who put a piano inside, while twenty persons 

 were dancing on the floor, and fifty occupied seats to 

 witness the strange ball. The bark of one of these 

 giant trees was transported to London in parts, the 

 parts were set together again at the Crystal Palace, 



