SCENERY. "9 
corded in Grecian mythology. The trees are so high that you 
must look twice before you can see their tops, and then you 
must keep on looking before you can comprehend their height. 
The best way to see them is to lie down amd look up, and re- 
member that the spire of the New York Trinity Church, which 
is the highest artificial structure in the United States, tower- 
ing far above all the rest of the American metropolis, though 
two hundred ‘and eighty-four feet high, would be entirely lost 
to distant view if set down among these trees. 
The grove covers a space half a mile wide and three-quar- 
ters of a mile long. Classifying its trees according to their 
size, we find that there is one tree thirty-four feet in diameter; 
two trees of thirty-three feet; thirteen between twenty-five 
and thirty-three; thirty-six between twenty and twenty-five ; 
eighty-two between fifteen and twenty; making a total of one 
hundred and thirty-four trees between fifteen and thirty-four 
feet in diameter; and then there are two hundred and ninety- 
three between one and fifteen feet through. 
One very large tree has fallen, and a considerable portion 
of it has been burned; but appearances indicate that it was 
nearly forty feet in diameter, and four hundred feet high. 
The Mammoth ‘Tree is a cone-bearing evergreen, belonging 
to the botanical genus named Cupressus (cypress) by Linnzus. 
After the time of that naturalist, his genus of the Cupressus 
was divided; so that the Mammoth Tree would have come 
under the head of the Tawodiwm, which, about the year 1850, 
was again divided by Endlicher, the German botanist, and the 
redwood-tree was declared to belong to a new genus, called 
Sequoia. 
In 1853, the mammoth trees first came to the notice of the 
public. The botanists in San Francisco, engaged in the tur- 
moil of business, looked at the specimens, but had not time to 
examine them, and supposed them to be of the same species 
with the redwood, to which the mammoth tree certainly does 
bear a very close resemblance. Thinking the tree, however, 
to be very remarkable on account of its great size, they sent 
