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Passed the farm of Mr..Yaunt, and soon after that 
of Sefiora Bale, the widow of an English physician, 
Fremont describes the largest red-wood measured by him to be fif- 
teen feet in diameter, and 275 feet in height. Lieut. Stoneman, U.S. 
Army, speaks of another of about the same height, and twenty-one feet 
in diameter. The largest tree seen by Mr. Tyson (quoted above) was in 
the forests near Bodega: it had been cut down and a portion removed ; 
the stump was twelve and a quarter feet in diameter, clear of the very 
thick bark. He saw many trees of nine or ten feet, and those of six 
and eight feet, were very common. 
After examining these forests to some extent, Mr. Tyson says he 
“measured off a space equal to one seventh of an acre, which was esti- 
mated to contain about an average of the forests of that region, and 
found within it three trees about one hundred feet high and eighteen 
inches thick, and twelve others varying between four and eight feet in 
diameter, and from 180 to 230 feet high.” It is difficult to form an 
idea of the product of timber upon an acre containing the proportion 
within the fractional part above noted, without an arithmetical calcula- 
tion, when it will be found to produce about one million feet of boards, 
one inch thick, besides five hundred cords of wood from the tops and 
limbs. 
Captain Smith thinks he alone has seen ten thousand acres of such 
forest, and Mr. Tyson saw many acres which would yield considerably 
more in proportion than the measured space. 
Judge Thornton speaks of pines which “ measured, at a height of be- 
tween sixand a dozen feet above the ground, forty feet in circumference, 
their bark nearly a foot thick, and between two and three hundred feet 
high.” Between Paget Sound and Fort Harrison, some of the fallen 
trees have been found to be 265 feet in length. “These trees are per- 
fectly straight and without branches for a distance of 150 feet. In many 
places where these trees have fallen, they present barriers to the vision 
even when the traveller is on horseback.”— Oregon and California, Vol. 
IL. p. 350. 
Mr. Walter Hitchcock gives - following account of forest monsters 
which fell under his observation 
“The big trees (for there are 131 of them over ten feet in diameter 
standing on the limits of a few acres) stand in Mammoth Tree Valley, 
