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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ite. Atrip to Yosemite is incomplete unless it includes a visit to both ofthem. MARVELS OF NATURE, 95 The same wiseforesight which gaveYosemite to theState, gave Mari-posa to be held inperpetuity. Thegrant is two milessquare. It has beenimproved and madeof easy access. TheTule River Groupswere the last discov-ered, being found in1867. While Cala-veras and Mariposalead in point of be-ing known, theothers are worthyany reasonable ex-penditure of timeand money. Gazing on amountain therecomes no thoughtthat it has been awitness to the pass-ing events of theages. But thesetrees have shadedraces dead for hun-dreds of years. Theylive, and seem al-most possessed ofminds; and whenthose who now restunder their branch-es are dust, they willstill live, and future generations may conjecture who has seen themin ages gone. They sprouted before the Christian era dawned, andunconcerned they grew, while nations rose and fell. Who knowswhat may transpire till when the earth shall tremble to their crash-
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STAGE LINE. 96 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. ing fall ? Or how long shall their fluted Corinthiai. columns swaygrandly to the winds of the Pacific ? That a pioneer should set up housekeeping in the hollow trunk ofone of these big trees is not at all strange, for he has an ample tene-ment there without the trouble of lathing and plastering. A hollowtree, from thirty to forty feet in diameter, may be partitioned intoseveral comfortable rooms — space enough for quite a numerousfamily. We conclude our remarks upon these giants of the forest by anextract from the pen of onetheir who has sat beneathshadows : — Wild calculations havebeen made of the ages ofthe larger of these trees;but one of the oldest in theCalaveras Grove being cutdown and the rings of thewood counted, its age provedto be one thousand threehundred years ; and proba-bly none now upon theground date back fartherthan the Christian era.They began with our mod-ern civilization ; they werejust sprouting when the Starof Bethlehem

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