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Each spring the sap has risen in their mighty columns, and they 

 represent a continuous vegetable life that began on the farther side 

 of human history. 



Galen Clark, the discoverer of the Mariposa Grove, says that when 

 he first saw the big trees in April, 1857, they were not burned much; 

 that a forest fire raged through this section of the Sierra Nevadas 

 in the summer of 1864, and that is the reason that the trees are so 

 badly scarred by fire. The Sequoias of this group are really divided 

 into two groves, the upper and the lower, from their respective sit- 

 uations on the mountain side whereon they grow. 





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Mariposa Grove of Big Trees 



