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others range from 28 to 90 feet. He reckons that when a 
tree reaches 90 feet in girth, it will be 300 feet high ; and if 
60 feet, it may be about 250 feet high, and so on. The 
following quotation relates to the Mariposa grove :—“ One 
mighty tree that had fallen by fire, and burned out, into 
which we walked for a long distance, we found to be the 
abode of the grizzly bear. Another tree, measuring 80 feet, 
and standing aloof, was called ‘The Lone Giant ;’ it went 
heavenward some 300 feet. One monster tree that had fallen 
and been burned hollow has been recently tried by a party of 
our friends, riding, as they fashionably do, in the saddle, 
through the tunnel of the tree. These friends rode through 
this tree a distance of 153 feet. The tree had been long fallen, 
and measured, ere its bark was gone and its sides charred, 
over 100 feet in circumference, and probably 350 feet in height. 
“The mightiest tree that has yet been found now lies upon 
the ground, and fallen as it lies, it is a wonder still; it is. 
charred, and time has stripped it of its heavy bark, and yet 
across the butt of the tree, as it lay upturned, it measured 
33 feet without its bark. There can be no question that in its 
vigour, with its bark on, it was 40 feet in diameter, or 120 in 
circumference. Only about 150 feet of the trunk remains, 
yet the cavity where it fell is still a large hollow beyond the 
portion burned off; and upon pacing it, measuring from the 
root 120 paces, and estimating the branches, this tree must 
have been 400 feet high. We believe it to be the largest 
tree yet discovered.” —(P. 148.) 
It is reported that there are several groves at distances 
varying from six to ten miles eastward of Mariposa. 
Of the Frezno grove Mr. Hutchings says :— 
“This grove consists of about 500 trees of the Taxodium 
family, on about as many acres of dense forest land, gently 
undulating ; the two largest we could find measured 81 feet 
each in circumference, well formed, and straight from the 
ground to the top. The others, equally sound and straight, 
were from 51 feet to 75 feet in circumference.” It is added, 
“It ought here to be remarked that Mr. L. A. Holmes 
