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THE FORESTER. 



February, 



thickening columns in all shapes and 

 sizes ; and beside them patches of sun- 

 light shifted slowly as the tree tops swayed. 

 For six miles we crawled through the 

 chilly twilight of these Redwoods, till 

 coming suddenly over a small ridge, and 

 down the other side, we looked out onto 



ported by the operations of two sawmills. 

 It lies in the lee of a very gentle sloping 

 promontory which passes by the town and 

 ends in a rocky point, and an island with 

 a light house on it. The buildings are all 

 wooden, mostly square and two stories 

 high, and the sidewalks are planked and 





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AI.ONO SMITH RIVER : REDWOODS IN THE BACKGROUND. 



a broad meadow with several clumps of 

 Pines upon it. Beyond was a long curv- 

 ing beach, Crescent City clustered at the 

 horn, and outside the Pacific Ocean, heav- 

 ing and whitening under the trade wind. 

 Crescent City, the county seat of Del 

 Norte County, is a village of some fifteen 

 hundred inhabitants, who are mainly sup- 



generally covered by the porches of the 

 stores which line them. Front street, the 

 street of promenade and gossip, is sepa- 

 rated from the surf by a low wooden para- 

 pet and about a hundred and fifty yards of 

 sand ; and in winter, when thousands of 

 cords of driftwood come out of the Klamath 

 river and travel up the coast before the 



