Sequoia 711 
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In the British Museum of Natural History there is a section taken at about 
18 feet from the ground, of a tree felled in 1892 at Fresno. The annual rings show 
that it was 1335 years old. 
In Garden and Forest, v. 541-547, there is an account, with two excellent 
photographs, of the felling of a large Sequoia from which a specimen was taken for 
the Jesup Timber Collection in the Natural History Museum at New York. 
One of the pictures shows the tree in the act of falling; the other shows the 
stump, which at ground level was go feet in girth, and on its bark and outer edge 
fifty men are standing, and there is room for a hundred more. Mr. Moore, the 
Superintendent of the King’s River Lumber Company, on whose land the tree 
was cut, estimated its contents at 400,000 feet, board measure, equal to about 
40,000 cubic feet. (H. J. E.) 
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