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I From San Francisco to the Big Trees-of
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(We copy tfie following fromVick's
Floral Guide, hoping it will hp
of interest, at least, to some of our
readers, if not all. We can not pub
lish the entire article in the present
number of the Union, consequently
will continue it unt il completed. Ed. )
After making arrangements lor
horses and wagon to be in waiting at
Milton, the terminus of the railroad,
perhaps about thirty miles nonhUatt
of Stockton, we bade our good friendvS
in San Francisco farewell for a season,
Iu n d taking ' an
early start, reach
ed Milton about &
noon, where we
were packer! into
stages, or ra'her f
three seated wag-
ons, and about
dark arrived at a
somewhat deser-
ted mining town
ci'lied Murphy's
Carnp, having
made twenty-
nine miles over
a strange, daty,
hilt to us a pleas-
mt roadi Here
we remained tor the. night and the
Hj next morning continued our journey
to the big trees, yet fifteen miles enst
aud nearly 2.500 feet upwards. The
route was exceedingly pleasant, and
our anticipations were at fever liea.
The grand Sugar Pines, in the dis
tance. we felt quite sure were the big
trees, and the biggest trees in the
Wm world. Before noon we reached the
pleasant hotel of Mr. Pbrry, at the
i edge of the Calaveras Grove, and af
ter removing the accumulation of dust
from clothes and person, determined
to have a look at once, although din
ner was announced a matter of no
small importance to the hungry moun-
DB tain traveler. Until we traveled in
California we did not know that eat
ing was of so much consequence. We
had just a look, and we thought the
trees were not as large as we expec-
HH ted that these Oalifornians delighted
HH in big stories as well as big trees
then we thought they were pretty
H large, but not big enough to make go
much fuss about then we looked a-
IHH gain, and didn't have a' very decided
opinion about it J m fact had become
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somewhat mired, and thought we had
better go to dinner. When we came
out apain the tr es wer e a good deal
larger, and they go' larger every mo
ment we looked at th"m. So we
wV I'd through tins grove of fifty acres
con jining about one hundred big trees,
and they were certainly large Uiny
must, be large figures tell the tru'h.
and we parsed a siring around some
of them that mesisnred between sixty
and seventy feel, and .others.bv pacing,
twenty feel and over in diameter ; and
no doubt over a hund'ed feet lo the
lowest branch, while, the tops mared
h'ee hundred feet above us. Of
Leaf
course, such trees were entitled to the
name 'Big,' but their 'trunks are as
smooth anu straight as arrows, and ev
erything around is large and it is diffi
cult at first to realize their immensity.
These big trees possess no beauty, save-
I..
m their trunks, the foliage being thin A
scattering and almost out. of sight, fl
while the trunk presents the "ul'oSt H
graceful vshafl mortal eye over beheld. ; H
We give a:n engraving of both foliage H
and cone, of about, natural size. The ;fl
Sugar Pine, a most beautiful and ma-- H
jestio tree, abounds in the mountain, '
and if not overshadowed by its 'mwn' H
moth neighbors would be thought of H
immense proportions- We measured' H
some that were more 'ban ten feet int M
ciameter, unless we have forgotten ihh ;9
correct figures. Thry be;r ''lea.t " "H
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conffi, sometimes eighteen inches in"!
length, and as the grow am on a 'ho U
big trees, and
the cones drop to" 9
the ground, they; M
are often coMec-, 9
'ed by tourita, m
and carried a way, - .H
as t he YniiVof 'M
Mammoth -Tree' q
which bears bnCr M
a small cone, a ;1
seen by our en- I
graving. The' J
Suar Pine ex;-' J 1
udes a sugary .? II
gum, hence; tji;
name. Aftera - : " ;
short stay among: $ ;
t h e Mum moth" . 1
Tees, and we have ever since regret- ' ' J
ed its brevity, we commenced oui re- , ; j
turn to Murphy's Camp, and having . 1
no occasion to watch for the wonder- X 4t
ful trees, were at leisure to enjoy the fm
delightful scenery; and we do not' '
think there are fifteen miles of travel' - ; . f 1
in the world that will. afford such', ' M
wondrous delight. f , 1 3
TO BE CONTINUED. 1 ' vi. ' " Jl
Epigrams. A singular method wap em-
ployed by the wits of a certain epoch to: ,
eke out their intellectual Rtore ; not only ' 'j
did they put ttmir good things into verse,1 ; J9
but they cast about lor some place to writo j 1
them in or upon, which should be itsolfsig vJt
nificant, as thus: M
VrniTTED ON A L00KIN0.QLA88. v i !-'M
I chanpp, and so do women, too j W ' 3m
But I reflect, which women never do . ' 's
To which a lady is said to have repliedt s !
If women reflected, 0 scribbler, declare ,j
What man faith Less man would be blest ' f i 1
by the fair? j :-J
An unsophisticated person once de! , 'M
cjined a plate of macaroni Boup withj
remark that they 'couldn't palm i . '; I 'M
ofif any biled pipe-b1 ems on him. .
