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Excerpt from The Secret of the Big Trees: Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks
It was doubtless a graceful, sharply conical tree, 20 or 30 feet high, with dense, horizontal branches, the lower ones o-f which swept the ground. Like the young trees of to-day, the ancient sequoia and the clump of trees of similar age which grew clo-se to it must have been a charming adornment. Of the landscape. By the time of Mara thon the trees had lost the hard, sharp lines of youth, and were thoroughly mature. The lower branches had disappeared, up to a height of 100 feet or more; the giant trunks were disclosed as bare, reddish columns covered with soft. Bark 6 inches or a. Foot in thick ness; the upper branches had acquired a slightly drooping aspect; and the spiny foliage, far removed from the ground, had assumed a grace ful, rounded appearance. Then for centuries, through the days of Rome, the Dark Ages, and all the period of the growth of European civilization, the ancient. Giants preserved the same appearance, strong and solid. But with a strangely attractive, approachable quality.
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