FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



disappearing within their somber shad- 

 ows, but still carrying upward the 

 masses of foliage, as if striving to reach 

 the very clouds. As we view their 

 stately and incomparable forms, so mas- 

 terly wrought, so unapproachable in 

 their magnificence, we need hardly be 

 told that these trees are strangers from 

 a distant and forgotten age. 



Much has been said and written con- 

 cerning the sizes and ages of these two 

 largest trees of America — indeed, with 

 the exception of the Australian euca- 

 lipti, we might say of the world. It is 

 said that some of the latter surpass the 

 redwood in height, though a redwood 

 tree was discovered within recent 

 years on the Eel River, California, 

 whose stupendous height reached 

 nearly three hundred and fifty feet, 

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