a APPENDIX. 
EXTRACT FROM HUTCHING’S CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1859. 
the spring of 1852, Mr. A. T. Dowd, one.of the Nimrods of Calaveras County, employed by the Union Water Company to supply the workmen engaged in the 
“constractic n of their canal, with gume,in the pursuit of a large bear he had wounded, su uddenly came upon one of these magnificent giants of vegetation that have since become 
so famous throughout the world, as the Mammoth Trees, On returning to cam and relating the discovery, his usu: ully reliable ver racity was doubted ; ps it Was not un- 
til several days afterwards that he could prevail on his companions, under the plea of helping to bring in an immense grizzly he pretended to have killed, to accom pany him 
to the spot, where aubseqnently other trees, equally large, were found; and from that time the discovery of this remarkable Grove attracted notice in all pats of the State, 
and afterwards abroad, 
The site of this Grove was subsequently claimed under the Pre-emption Law, by an individual not connected with the original discovery, who forthwith commenced 
re paring the bark of the original “Big Tree,” which was afterwards felled. 
Mammoth Tree Grove is situated i in a gently sloping, heavily timbered vary, on the divide or ridge between the San Antonio branch of the Calaveras river and the 
North ‘Fork of the Stanislaus river, in lat. 88 deg. north, lon. 120 deg. 1 in. west; at an. elevation of 2 300 feet above Murphy’s Camp, and 4,370 feet above the level 
of the sea, at a distance of 97 miles from Sacramento City, bese 87 mile es from ack (by direct roads only 80 aad 50 respectively ; from Pticnhis 10, and Sonora 14.) 
The Mamimoth Tree is decided to belong to the Tazodi vides referred to the old Genus Sequoia Sempervirens; having been properly examined and classified, it is now 
only know i among scientific men as the Sequoia Gigantea Seven 
ithin an area e about fifty acres there are about ninety trees of a goodly size, twenty of which exceed 25 feet in diameter at the base, and consequently are about 
75 feet in circumference 
The Original “ Big Tree,” The ‘Old Maid” 
Felled for the A aad of exhibiting a section of the stamp and the bark in oi: | Is 261 feet in height, and 59 feet in circumference. 
Atlantic cities. Five men were employed for 25 days in felling. the “ Big Tre | ¢ ac 
‘by boring it off with | pump pe me inserting w wos after the stem was once | Is one of the roughest, bark-rent specimens of the Big Trees to be found; 298 
rit gon from the stump, until they procured its downfall. This noble tree was | feet in height, and 60 feet in circumference. 
302 feet in height, and 96 feet in-circumference at the ground. Upon the upper | ‘6 Ds ’ oe 
part of the prostrate trunk is constructed a long double bowling alley. | The “ Pioneer’s Cabin, 
The Big Tree stump, on which on the subsequent 4th of July, 32 persons were i The top of which is broken off about 150 feet from the ground. This tree meas- 
engaged in dancing four sets of cotillions, besides musicians and lookers-on, ures 33 feet in diameter, but, as it is eure and uneven in its circumference, its 
popees acro.s the solid wood, five and a half feet from the ground, 25 feet | average will not be quite equal to th 
without the bark (15 to 18 inches thick,) and 28 feet with the bark. The wood | “e wi ” 
is sound to the very centre. {| . ae! The Siamese T ns, 
WALE THROUGH THE FOREST | As their name indicates, with one large stem at the ground, form a double tree 
. | about 41 feet upwards. These are each 300 feet in height 
‘ ’ gnt. 
The ‘‘ Mother of the Forest’ 1 Near them stands the 
In the summer of 1854 the bark was stripped from this tree, by an act of van- | nig rdi “s 
dalism, for purposes of exhibition in the east, to the height of 116 feet ; it now A fine-looking old tree, 820 feet in height, and 81 fect in circumference. 
measures in c.recumference, without the bark, at the base, 84 feet; twenty fect rT; ” 
from base, 69 feet; seventy feet from base, 43. feet 6 iiehos ; one hundred an | The babe and von 
sixteen feet from base, and upto the “bark, 89 feet 6 inches, The full cireumfer- \ Form another beautiful sight, as side by side they stud. ‘The former is es feet 
enee at base, including bak, was 90 feet. Its height is 821 feet.” The average ~ in height,-and the latter 302 feet. Unitedly their cireumference is 93 fe 
thickness of bark was LL inches ; although in places 1t was about two fect. This | The ‘“‘ Horseback Ride” 
tree is sti ate 5 ? ai 537,0( ee 3 inc ber. 
ree 18 estimated to pee sin 537,000 feet of sound inch open Is an old, broken, and long prostrate trunk, 150 feet in length, hollow from one 
Father of the Forest. end to the other, and in which, to the distance of 72 feet, a person can ride on 
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A short dist: ance from the above lies the prostrate and majestic body of the horseback, At the narrowest ‘place inside, this tree is 12 feet high. 
“Father of the Forest,” the largest tree of the entire group, half buried in the **Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 
soil. This tree measures in circumference, at the roots, 110 feet. It is 200 feet Is another fanciful name, given to a tree that is hollow, and in which 25 persons 
to the first brane h ote whole of which is hollow, and through which a person can | Mh: S ahie Mee es pag 
can be seated comfortably. This tree is 305 feet in height, and 91 in circumference, 
walk erect. By the trees that were broken off when this tree bowed its proud | = ‘ ciple a 
head in its fall, se is apatite that when standing it could not be less than 435 The ‘‘ Pride of the Forest 
feet in height. Three hundred feet, from 1 the roots, where it was broken 0 by | Is one of the most beautiful trees of this wonderful Grove. It is well- shaped, 
striking against another | large tree, it is 18 feet in diameter. Around this tree | stealthe oh sound ; and, although not quite as large as some of the others, it is, 
stand the graceful, yet giant trunks of numerous other trees, which form a family nevertheless, a noble -looking snaniher of the Grove; 275 feet in height, and 60 
circle, and make this the most imposing scene in the whole group. Near its base feet in circumference, 
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is a never-failing spring ee a an delicious .w ater. a: | The ° Beauty of the Forest’ 
The ‘Husband and Wife, Is similar in shape to the above, and measures 307 feet in height, and 65 feet in 
Two graceful trees leaning against each other, Both of the same size, measure circumference. 
in circumference, at the base, about 60 feet, and in height about 252 feet. The * Two Guardsmen ”’ 
The Burnt Tree ”’ Stand by the roadside at the entrance of the “clearing,” and near the cottages. 
Is prostrate, and hollow from vumerous burnings, in which a person can ride on They seem to Ly me sentinels of the valley. In hei aht these are 300 feet, ‘and 
horseback for G0 feet It now measures across the r oots 89 feet 6 inches. in cireumference one is 65 feet, and the other 69 feet 
re Pn | ext, though “inet in being mentioned, not least in gracefulness and beauty, 
Hercules, stand t 
Another of these giants, is 95 feet in GPa deol and ~320 feet high. On the at Three Sisters.’ 
trunk of this tree is cut the name of . ster, June, 1850, By some called the “ Three Graces,” one of a most beautiful groups (if not the 
The * Hermit,” | most beautiful) of the whole Grove, Together, at their base, they measure in 
i eee ; at ease ae : ’ , ference 92 feet, and in height they are al, and eac asures nearly 
318 fect in height, and 60 in circumference; exceedingly straight and well-formed. pre ag yy ene ‘y equ vane each measures n J 
Many of the largest of these trees have been deformed and otherwise injured by the numerous and large fires that have swept with desolating fury over this forest at 
different periods. But a small portion of decayed timber, of the Taxodium Genus, can be seen. Like other varieties of the same species, it is less subject to decay, even when 
fallen and dead, than other woods. 
Respecting the age of this Grove, there has been but one opinion among the best informed a idee which is this: that each concentric circle is the growth of one 
year, and-as nearly three thousand concentric circles can be counted in the stump of the fallen tree, it is correct to conclude that these trees are nearly three thousand years old, 
* This,” says the Gardener's Calendar, “may very well: be true, if it does not grow above two inches i in dais} in twenty. years,:which we believe to be the fact.” 
Ce vale these magnificent and vener atl forest giants of Calaveras County. be gifted with a descriptive historical tongue, we could amen dear 
changes that have taken place in California within ‘the last three thousand years! ) satanic 
1 of mane wonderin} 
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