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transported to Washington and placed beside the Capitol, its summit towering far 

 above the statue which surmounts the dome of the noble structure, the effect would 

 be overwhelming." Various estimates have been made of the age of the Big Trees 

 of the Calaveras Grove, and it has been poetically asserted that they were in their 

 prime when Noah built the Ark, and may have been ''contemporary with the crea- 

 tion of Man." The geologists of the California survey fixed the age of one tree that 

 was cut down at 1300 years. (We counted 1362 layers.) Six feet from the ground it 

 was 33 feet in diameter inside the bark (that being about 15 inches thick). 



