THE SEXTIXEL CYPRESS TREE : MOXTEREY, 



Photo by Pil 

 CAEIEORXIA 



>burv Picture Co. 



Clinging, a lone outpost, upon its headland perch of weather-riven rock, this melancholy 

 cypress wreck has stood its watch, perhaps, for more than 2,000 years, buffeted without 

 mercy by the rough Pacific blasts that have swept its bare abode unchecked and tormented 

 it into a strange, gnarled shape. These cypress trees along the Caiifornian coast are the 

 last of their kind to find a foothold on our continent, for they fringe the line which just 

 divides the surf and land. 



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