=_The Black Chamber._=--This is probably the most notable example of vitality on the part of a Sequoia in the forest. About one-thirtieth of the bark remains, and the whole interior has been eaten away by fire; nevertheless, the tree still lives and thrusts out new branches each year. It is located along the Crescent Meadow Road. OTHER FAMOUS TREES =_Washington._=--Very impressive as to size. =_Abe Lincoln._=--Thirty-one feet in diameter, 259 feet high, a rugged, ancient-looking tree. =_Auto Log._=--A huge fallen giant upon which an auto may be driven with ease and safety. =_William McKinley._=--Twenty-eight feet in diameter, 291 feet high. =_The President._=--Twenty-nine feet in diameter, 250.2 feet high, wider at 120 than at 60 feet. =_Keyhole._=--Burned out "keyholes." =_Room Tree._=--Cavernous room within a standing tree. =_Stricken Tree._=--Rent by lightning, but still alive. =_Window Tree._=--Filigree appearance and many windows. =_Chief Sequoyah._=--Old with huge burls. =_Black Arch._=--Trail leads through charred, living giant. =_Roosevelt Tree._=--One of the most perfect in the forest. =_Pershing Tree._=--Named for Gen. John J. Pershing, has very richly colored bark. =_Cloister._=--Four trees in a square. =_Pillars of Hercules._=--Trail leads between two standing giants. =_Bear's Bathtub._=--A cavity between two trees, containing water, frequented by bears. ORIGIN OF THE NAME "SEQUOIA" The naming of the Big Trees of California "Sequoia" is a fitting tribute to that native American, a Cherokee Indian, who spelled his name Se-quo-yah. An uneducated, non-English-speaking Indian, he perfected a phonetic alphabet of 86 symbols with a character representing every sound in the tongue of his tribe. It was said that with this alphabet, sometimes characterized as one of the greatest ever invented, a Cherokee child might learn to read and write the Cherokee language in a few days, and that within a remarkably short time after the official acceptance of the alphabet by the tribe every one of its members was able to read and write. The change brought about in the Cherokee Tribe by the introduction of this means of expressing thought on paper was equally remarkable. A printing press was established, type made of the various symbols, and the news of the day printed in two newspapers. Their laws were printed in Sequoyah's alphabet, and also the Gospels and many other books both useful and interesting to the Cherokee people, who thus made rapid advance in general knowledge and in civilization. THE GROVES