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many cases on the decline, as is shown 

 by the stagheaded condition of the 

 tops. Old fires have injured many of 

 them very severely, but, if the natural 

 records are to be believed, there seem 

 to have been no large fires within the 

 grove since 1876, which date is plain- 



ly legible, carved on the trunk of the 

 largest tree in the grove, known as 

 "General Washington." There have 

 been small fires, notably one about fif- 

 teen years ago, which killed a large 

 sequoia, the hollow shell of which now 

 remains and around which some young 



Two Fine Young Sapling Sequoias, Growing in an Opening Along the Bank of a 

 Creek Flowing Through the Dinkey Bigtree Grove. 



