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MARIPOSA BIG TREES 



(Copyright applied for by B. M. Lcitcli) 



!^§^^HIS group is included in a tract of land that was 

 granted to the state of California by the United States 

 in 1864, and accepted by the State Legislature in 

 ^^ 1866. The grant contains 2,589.26 acres. The name 

 F^ given to the Grove is due to the latter's position in 

 Mariposa county. Ceded to the United States by the State in 1905. 

 The several groups that make this grove number 627 individual trees. 

 When the species was discovered, botanists contended over the 

 name, but finally adopted Sequoia Gigantea for these trees. For 

 their smaller and more numerous cousins, the redwood of commerce, 

 the name Sequoia Sempervirens was given. 



George Geuss was the Cadmus of the Cherokees; he invented the 

 alphabet which made the Cherokee a written language and gave it a 

 literature. His Indian name was Secjuoia, and this was chosen by 

 the botanists and dendrologists for these big trees. 



This grove is no less a wonder than the Yosemite. Indeed to 

 many the trees arc more wonderful than the valley, because they live. 



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