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02082 13 our party. He had seen the Redwoods of the coast, and through the big tree I had seen was Redwood, and declared
he saw Redwood when we were in the Sierra Nevada tc. But of course he was in this mistaken. And certainly too he was never
within ten miles of my 02081 14 big tree when we were coming to Calilfornia. Finally, after the Calaveras grove of
Sequoias had been rediscoverd in the early fifties I went there and recognized the tree that I saw and the lay of the ground.
John Bidwell.