rman Tree.

[Illustration: _From a photograph by S.H. Willard_

BULL FROG LAKE, PROPOSED ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK

Along the crest of the Sierra extends a region of lofty cirques and
innumerable glacier-fed lakelets]

[Illustration: UNDER A GIANT SEQUOIA

From right to left: Benjamin Ide Wheeler, William Loeb, Jr., Nicholas
Murray Butler, John Muir, Surgeon-General Rixey, U.S.N., Theodore
Roosevelt, then President, George C. Pardee, and William H. Moody]

The dimensions of the greatest trees are astonishing. Glance at this
table:

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| HEIGHT | DIAMETER
NAME | FEET | FEET
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GIANT FOREST GROVE |
General Sherman | 279.9 | 36.5
Abraham Lincoln | 270 | 31
William McKinley | 291 | 28
| |
MUIR GROVE | |
Dalton | 292 | 27
| |
GARFIELD GROVE |
California | 260 | 30
| |
GENERAL GRANT GROVE |
General Grant | 264 | 35
George Washington | 255 | 29
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The Theodore Roosevelt Tree, which has not been measured at this
writing, is one of the noblest of all, perfect in form and color,
abounding in the glory of young maturity.

To help realization at home of the majesty of the General Sherman Tree,
mark its base diameter, thirty-six and a half feet, plainly against the
side of some building, preferably a church with a steeple and
neighboring trees; then measure two hundred and eighty feet, its
height, upon the ground at right angles to the church; then stand on
that spot and, facing the church, imagine the trunk rising, tapering
slightly, against the building's side and the sky above it; then slowly
lift your eyes until you are looking up into the sky at an angle of
forty-five degrees, this to fix its height were it growing in front of
the church.

Imagine its lowest branches, each far thicker than the trunks of eastern
elms and oaks, pushing horizontally out at a height above ground of a
hundred and fifty feet, which is higher than the tops of most of the
full-grown trees of our eastern forests. Imagine these limbs bent
horizontally at right angles, like huge elbows, as though