FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
disappearing within their somber shad- 
ows, but still carrying upward the 
masses of foliage, as if striving to reach 
the very clouds. As we view their 
stately and incomparable forms, so mas- 
terly wrought, so unapproachable in 
their magnificence, we need hardly be 
told that these trees are strangers from 
a distant and forgotten age. 
Much has been said and written con- 
cerning the sizes and ages of these two 
largest trees of America— indeed, with 
the exception of the Australian euca- 
lipti, we might say of the world. It is 
said that some of the latter surpass the 
redwood in height, though a redwood 
tree was discovered within recent 
years on the Eel River, California, 
whose stupendous height reached 
nearly three hundred and fifty feet, 
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