Record Data
Source citation
"Mammoth California Trees," New Orleans (LA) Picayune, December 13, 1857, p. 6: 1.
Newspaper: Publication
New Orleans Daily Picayune
Newspaper: Headline
Mammoth California Trees
Newspaper: Page(s)
6
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Zak Rosenberg, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Mammoth California Trees. - A new mammoth tree has been discovered in California, 112 feet in circumference and 400 feet high. It still stands, the monarch of the wood, but a monster lies prostrate at its side, through whose hollow trunk a party recently rode the whole length "on horseback." So says the correspondent of the San Francisco Bulletin, and we tell the tale as 'tis told by him.