They bulge considerably at the base, but not more than is required for beauty and safety and the only reason that this bulging seems in some cases excessive is that only a comparatively small section is seen in near views.

One that I measured in the Kings River forest was twenty-five feet in diameter at the ground and ten feet in diameter 220 feet above the ground showing the fineness of the taper of the trunk as a whole.

No description can give anything like an adequate idea of their singular majesty, much less of their beauty.

Except the sugar pine, most of their neighbors with pointed tops seem ever trying to go higher, while the big tree, soaring above them all, seems satisfied.

Its grand domed head seems to be poised about as lightly as a cloud, giving no impression of seeking to rise higher.