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Title: The giant sequoia

An account of the history and characteristics of the big trees of California

Author: Rodney Sydes Ellsworth

Photographer: H. S. Hoyt

Arthur C. Pillsbury

Release date: August 2, 2025 [eBook #76616]

Language: English

Original publication: Oakland: J. D. Berger, 1924

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIANT SEQUOIA ***

The Giant Sequoia

AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE BIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA

BY
RODNEY SYDES ELLSWORTH

WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

J. D. BERGER
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
1924

MARIPOSA GROVE

Photo by H. S. Hoyt

THE SUN WORSHIPPERS
Only at sunset does the Sequoia lose its dignity to become a thing of beauty

To My Grandmother

A living thing,

Produced too slowly to decay,

Of form and aspect too magnificent

To be destroyed.

—Wordsworth.