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same root. The three trees are intact and form the most beautiful group of 

 the " Mammoth Grove," the name given by the Americans to the basin in 

 which the Washingtonias stand. Each is 300 feet high and 92 feet in 

 circumference. That in the middle rises to the height of 200 feet without 

 a branch. 



The Pioneer's Cabin is an enormous tree, with the trunk broken off at 

 150 feet from the ground. 



The Old Bachelor is 300 feet high and 60 feet in circumference. 



The Hermit, thus called because it stands alone, is 300 feet high and 75 

 feet in circumference. It has been burnt on one side of its trunk. It is 

 calculated that it contains 725,000 cubic feet of timber. 



The Husband and Wife are each GO feet in circumference, and their 

 trunks, which are 250 feet high, come together at the summit. 



The Family Group consists of 26 trees standing close together, and in- 

 cludes "Father," "Mother," and 24 children. The Father was blown 

 down many years ago, and measures 110 feet in circumference at the base. 

 It is thought that he must have been 425 feet high. In falling he smashed 

 himself against a neighbor at the height of 300 feet, and ot this point he is 

 still 40 feet in circumference ! The fragment of the trunk which is now 

 prostrate is half buried in the earth, is hollow from end to end, and detains 

 towards one extremity the waters of a spring which he covered in his fall. 

 The Mother is 91 feet in circumference and 327 feet high. The children 

 are rather smaller. 



The Siamese Twins and their Keeper. The bodies of the twins separate 

 at 40 feet from the soil, and are each -300 feet high. The Keeper, who 

 stands by their side, is 325 feet high and 80 in circumference. 



The Old Maid stands alone ; her head is naked and bent ; she is 200 feet 

 long and 60 feet round. 



Adie and Mary are thus called after two young American girls who first 

 drove through the Mammoth Grove. These are two very beautiful trees, 

 300 feet high and 60 feet round. 



The Horseback Ride is an old hollow prostrate trunk, on which you can 

 ride on horseback for 75 feet. This aged trunk is 250 feet long. 



Uncle Tom's Cabin is so called because its base is hollowed into a wide 

 and deep cavern, entered by an opening 27^ feet wide and 10 feet high. 

 Twenty five persons can be seated in this grotto-like cavity. The tree is 

 300 feet high and 90 feet round. • 



Master Shelby, named after the owner of Uncle Tom, stands 15 feet off 

 the last, and is not quite 300 feet high. 



The Bride of California is 280 feet high, and 70 round. 



The Beauty of the Forest is a very upright tree, almost without branches 

 to the top, where it is capped with verdure. This is 300 feet and 65 in 

 circumference. 



So much for M. R^my's personal observation of the Washingtonias in the 

 Mammoth Grove of Calaveras. According to M. Carriere the species is 

 now known to occur elsewhere on the Sierra Nevada, especially in Carson 



