A TREE AS HISTORIAN.
\ Professor ,T. ,A. Thomson, in "MV Magazine," tolls this remarkable story of a iree which lived through all the great periods of history. "Tt was almost as'hiffli as the forth , Bridge is above the water, and a. dozen tall wen -■nntli their - outstretched artiis touching could just reach, round thn hole five feet from the ground. But it, had to bo cut down, and there was its seel ion in front of me, a poem of growth' ; . and. age. • - . ... "If showed 2.125 annual rings, so Iliac it had .besun. its life over 500 years before the Christian era. .Someone had marked the'section..with labels ' sliowiuK what size the tree must have been when Christ came',' when Home fell, wlion ; Mohammed was born when Chaxlfr- ; magne a wis crowned, when King Alfred established schools, when" Columbus dlsAmerica, when-Xewton publish- < ed his Trincipia,' when Darwin went on • the vovage of. the Beagle; and 60 op. "We are'.here face, to' face'with a Methuselah of trees, mating human centenarians'. . seem youngster. _. Wliat changes of .dynasties, -what' vicissitude* oft nations. ...w.hat mutiiiions of ljfe, what fluctuations of opinion had this Big Tree lived 111 rough a symbol of life**?' continuity an<i endurance!" ■ ■
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7
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