Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

CI:APTER XXXIX.
MAMMOTH TREE GROVE.
It is easy to doubt or disbelieve the traveler who
describes objects which he has seen that are unlike
our own experience; he may have been credulous
and imposed upon, or wishing to make himself a
hero, is tempted to exaggerate.
I am now about to write of the most stupendous
vegetable growth, and no doubt the oldest existing
upon the globe, the truth of w'ich I hope will be
tested hereafter by many of my readers.
On our way over the mountains, through the very
heavy forest, we stopped to measure some trees beside the road. The first and largest one we.,had
seen measured eighteen feet in circumference, but
as we passed on a few miles we came to one which
measured twenty-two teet in circumference. Then
we saw many more equally as large, whose bight
was from two hundred and fifty to three hundred
feet. These are the common sugar pines of the region, which became very celebrated on account of
their remarkable growth, before the discovery of
the "Big Trees" of Californlia ill 1852; a hunter havimg wounded a bear, which he followed to these most
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