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02082 11 pines, the Sugar pine. Besides, tho to me every thing was new and wonderful, there was at the moment no time
to consider. And yet the impression that tree made upon my mind could not be forgotten. Ever after when the mention of big
trees happened to be made, I never failed to tell 02082 12 my big tree story. In March, 1844, when Fremont first came
to California, I told him in the presence of Capt. Sutter, P.B. Reading, Col. Jos. B. Chiles and others, (at the breakfast
table one morning at Sutter's Fort) of the big tree I had seen. Col. Chiles was of