Fountain Of Justice
From the Kramgasse we emerge
into the Gerechtigkeitsgasse. in the
middle of which we perceive the foun
tain of the same name, i. e., the Foun
tain of Justice. The statue shows a
slice of a Sequoia gigantea sixteen feet
in diameter and if used for a table top
25 persons could be seated around it
with ease. At the heart of the tree a
series of rings continuing outward to
the bark indicates the centuries during
which the tree was growing. The rings
are plainly seen but so crowded the eye
cannot count them. It is figured this
tree began growing in the year 550,
A. D.
