New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Mammoth California Trees,” December 13, 1857

    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
    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.

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