Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1902 Sep 15.

81Good!Martinez, Sep 15/02Dear Mr Johnson;On my return from the Kern region I heard loud but vague rumors of the discovery of a giant sequoia in Converse Basin on Kings River 153 feet Cir. 50 ft dia. to which I paid no attention having heard hundreds of such biggest-tree-in-the-world rumors before. But at Fresno I met a surveyor who assured me that he had himself measured the tree & found it to be 153 feet Cir. 6 ft above ground. So of course I went back up the mountain to see & measure for myself carrying a steel tape line. At one foot above ground it is 108 ft in Circum- [At] four [feet above ground it is] 97 46 inches [circum- At] six [feet above ground it is] 93 ft [circum-] One of the largest & finest every way of living Sequoias that have been measured But none can say it is certainly the largesthttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/40551/thumbnail.jp