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.

MAMMOTH TREE GROVE.
In this grove observation will detect a number of
young trees, say from ten to three hundred years
old, and from forty to two hundred feet high. They
are growing finely and promise, barring accidents of
wind and fire, to be well brought up middle-aged
trees of their kind, in about a thousand or fifteen hundred years. Many of these trees have been badly
injured by the Indians building their fires against
them in former years. We are indignant at the stupidity which could see nothing in those trees but a
big back-log for their fires.
These trees are the only living monu
connect us with olden time. Perhaps
Rome was planted on the hills, certainly ]
any man imagined this Continent, thes
trees were lifting their noble forms in the
mountain solitudes, to be ready for eyes
appreciate them in the Nineteenth Centu
"These giant trees, in silent majesty,
Like pillars stand'neath heaven's mighty doe
'Twould seem that, perched upon their topme
With outstretched finger, man might touch th
Yet, could he gain that hight, the boundless s
Were still as far beyond his utmost reach
As from the burrowing toilers in a mine;
Their age unknown, into what depths of time
Might Fancy wander sportively, and deem
Some monarch father of this grove set forth
His tiny shoot, when the primeval flood
Receded from the old and changed earth.
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