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Volume 4 (1859-1860) (600 pages)
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THE GREAT YO-SEMITE VALLEY. 157
DISTANT VIEW OF THE “‘POHONO,” (INDIAN NAME,) OR BRIDAL VEIL WATERFALL,
[From @ Photograph by C. L. Weed.]
grass and water, we took lunch and a
rest of about two hours.
From this point parties visit the small
grove of mammoth trees, to be seen on
this route, but as our party was too anxious to look upon the great valley of waterfalls, we did not go down to see them;
at our request, however, Rev. J. C. Holbrook has kindly favored us with the following extract from his note-book, which
may happily supply the omission : —
“From Crane Flat we made a little
detour to the right of about a mile and
a half, to see some “Big Trees.” We
found them to consist of a little cluster
on the side of a deep cation, of the same
species of cedar as those which form the
celebrated grove in Calaveras county.
They are monsters, and of almost incredible size. Two of them grow from the
same root, and are united near the base,
and hence we call them the “Siamese
Twins.” They are virtually one tree, being nourished by the same roots. We
paced the distance around them at the
bottom, close to the bark, and found it to
be thirty-eight paces, or one hundred and
fourteen feet, which would give as the
diameter of both, thirty-eight feet !
The bark on one side has been cut into,
and it measures twenty inches in thickness. At a few rods distance, interspersed among other trees, are four or five
others of these monarchs of the forest, of
which two or three are twenty-six paces
each in circumference, or seventy-eight
feet, with a diameter of twenty-six feet.
They are perfectly straight, and tower
up heavenward from 150 to 200 feet.
These trees are well worth visiting by