Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 149
fifteenfeet from its base,it is six feet in di-ameter, or at leastseven feet withthe bark. Theheight of this treewhen it was cutdown is not re-corded, but as oneof the hving treesis more than threehundred and sixty feet high, it is probable that thisgiant was not much short of four hundred feet. In… … The Mother of the Forest. The Big Trees of California 121 Forest. The two trees nearer the foreground arehealthy, medium-sized trees, about fifteen feet diameterat six feet above the ground. The huge decayed trunk called Father of theForest, which has fallen perhaps a century or more,exhibits the…
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