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"I do not know how many
times I have helped measure the biggest big tree to satisfy some stranger who
wanted to carry away several yards of tangled string to astonish the folks at
home. I never made it quite 60 feet in
circumference, but then I have always measured two or three feet above the
ground. There is a tiny hotel here, which seems rather an encroachment on
nature’s solitude, and a day here does not seem quite so enchanting as it used
to a few years ago, when you felt as though you had come quite out of the world
into fairy regions, where the sleeping princess had left her tables for you,
but nothing more. I never object to a table when I have a lunch to spread no,
indeed."
Source: "California Trees and Their Uses," Pacific Rural Press, September 6, 1884.
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