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hotel has been built close to the group, which has become 

 a scene of attraction to visitors from all parts of the 

 country. An enumeration of a few of the more promi- 

 nent trees, with their statistics, will enable us better to 

 form an idea of the scene, particularly if we take the 

 monument of London as a standard of comparison, whose 

 total height is two hundred and two feet, and fifteen feet 

 the diameter of the column at the plinth. 



Leaving the hotel, and proceeding into the grove, the 

 visitor presently comes to the "Miner's Cabin," a tree 

 measuring eighty feet in circumference, and attaining 

 three hundred feet in height. The "cabin," or burnt 

 cavity, measures seventeen feet across its entrance, and 

 extends upwards of forty feet. Continuing our ramble, 

 admiring the luxuriant growth of underwood, consisting 

 of firs, cedars, dog-wood, and hazel, we come to the 

 "Three Graces." These splendid trees appear to grow, 

 and perhaps do grow, from one root, and form the most 

 beautiful group in the forest, towering side by side to the 

 height of two hundred and ninety feet, tapering symme- 

 trically from their base upwards. Their united circum- 

 ference amounts to ninety-two feet; it is two hundred 

 feet to the first limb on the middle tree. The " Pioneer's 

 Cabin " next arrests our attention, rising to the height of 

 one hundred and fifty feet, (the top having been broken 

 off",) and thirty-three feet in diameter. Continuing our 

 walk, we came to a forlorn-looking individual, having 

 many rents in the bark, and, withal, the most shabby- 

 looking in the forest. This is the "Old Bachelor;" it is 



