Foster, Edwin W · Boston : Ginn and Company · leaf 137
keep out forest fires, etc. Many of the best known of these trees are givennames. One is called Uncle Toms Cabin, because ofa peculiar opening at the base. The most famous perhaps is the ^^ Grizzly Giant.This one is ninety-three feet in circumference at thegroimd, and its first branch is two… … 128 THE BIG TREES 129 cut one down, and that the cost of felling one of thesemonsters is five hundred dollars. A stump of one of these trees is so large that danceshave been held on it, and on one very large one a ball-room has been built for this special purpose. As one Californian has said, The…
Woodwork · Trees
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