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and just outside of these another circle of younger 

 and smaller ones. In many instances it seems to 

 be all but certain that the present trees — the 

 present groups, especially — have sprung from 

 stumps or roots of an earlier generation. Per- 

 haps, after all, the giants were in those days. Far 

 back those days must have been, for some of the 

 trees that we now gaze upon with wonder, if we 

 may believe what we read about them, were 

 poets before David and philosophers before 

 Solomon. 



