Author: Estella L. Guppy

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9780332761770

Excerpt from The Cypress of Monterey: An Historical Sketch Are they the remnant of a forest at one time extending farther inland, or are they the last of an army of trees that has battled for ages with the sea? The readiness with which they yield to cultivation the world over suggests that their ancestors had a wider inland range. But these native trees themselves have all the appearance of battered heroes that are holding with a primi tive force to their last few yards of earth; and asone stands at Cypress Point, 1. Looking seaward, it does not take great effort of imagination to pic ture a cypress forest spreading its vigorous, flat, green foliage miles beyond the present shore line, over areas now covered by the ocean. To aid the imagination, there-is the jagged coast that bears witness to the rough inroads of the sea, together with the fact that an isolated grove of the same trees 15 found on'the headlands'of Point Lobos, on the far side of the deep curve in the coast made by Carmel Bay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.