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In their development they may, perhaps, lead us up to questions of considerable scientific interest. I shall not detain you with any remarks which would now be trite upon the size or longevity of these far-famed Sequoia-trees, or of the sugar-pines, incense-cedar, and firs associated with them, of which even the prodigious bulk of the dominating Sequoia does not sensibly diminish the grandeur.
Whether it be the man or the tree that is honored in the connection, probably either would live as long, in fact and in memory, without it. One notable thing about the Sequoia-trees is their isolation. Most of the trees associated with them are of peculiar species, and some of them are nearly as local.
This important question therefore had to be settled. One very useful work which Godfrey undertook was to put both banks of the river in communication with each other on the skirt of the sequoia-trees. He managed, after some difficulty, to drive a few stakes into the river-bed, and on them he fixed a staging of planks, which served for a bridge.
Although no account and no photographic representation of either species of the far-famed Sequoia-trees gives any adequate impression of their singular majesty still less of their beauty yet my interest in them did not culminate merely or mainly in considerations of their size and age. Other trees, in other parts of the world, may claim to be older.
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