Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 151
quoias have not outgrown the fire-scars inall that time, they are supposed to have then arrived attheir full growth. But the simple explanation of thesetrees alone having suffered so much from fire is, thattheir bark is unusually thick, dry, soft, and fibrous, 122 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky and… … occurred in the present century. Professor C. B. Brad-ley, of the University of CaHfornia, has carefullycounted the rings of annual growth on the stump ofthe Pavilion tree, and found them to be twelve hun-dred and forty; and after considering all that has beenalleged as to the uncertainty of this…
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