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and its accessibility, that, judging the future by the past, it is 
not likely, in its primeval growth, to outlast its rarer fellow- 
species. 
ily man preserves and disseminates as well as destroys. 
The species will probably be indefinitely preserved to science, 
and for ornamental and other uses, in its own and other lands; 
and the more remarkable individuals of the present day are 
likely to be sedulously cared for, all the more so as they 
become scarcer. 
Our third question remains to be answered: Have these 
famous Sequoias played in former times and upon a larger 
covered by glaciers, these Sequoias must have occupied other 
sss if, as there is reason to believe, they then existed 10 
e land. 
I have said that the redwoods have no near relatives in bs 
