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1 Brookland, D.C. June 8, 1900 Dear Mr. Muir: I have? just had the pleasure of reading your most interesting article
in the Atlantic Monthly for April on the forests of the Sierras. There is just one statement therein that I would challenge,
and I cannot resist the temptation to do so. You say that of all the fifty species of American oaks north of Mexico that you
know only two - the white oak of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and the live oak of Florida - surpass the mountain
live oak in size. Now I spent a month in the Sacramento Valley, mostly? among the oak groves and have spent six month in different
parts of Florida; yet among thousands of trees of the two kinds mentioned I never saw one that would 02700