Question

In the course of my explorations twenty-five years ago, I found five sawmills located on or near the lower margin of the Sequoia belt, all of which were cutting more or less Big Tree lumber, which looks like the redwood of the coast, and was sold as redwood. One of the smallest of these mills in the season of 1874 sawed two million feet of Sequoia lumber. —"Save the Redwoods," John Muir Which statement best describes the point Muir is making in the passage? Which detail appeals to the reader’s logic? Which detail establishes credibility? please helpppppp

Answer 1

the correct answers are

Sequoia Trees are being cut down in a alarming rate

the number of mills and the amount of lumber cut

Muir's experience as an explorer

Answer 2

In the course of my explorations twenty-five years ago, I found five sawmills located on or near the lower margin of the Sequoia belt, all of which were cutting more or less Big Tree lumber, which looks like the redwood of the coast, and was sold as redwood. One of the smallest of these mills in the season of 1874 sawed two million feet of Sequoia lumber.

Which statement best describes the point Muir is making in the passage?

Which detail appeals to the reader’s logic?

Which detail establishes credibility?

It was all a guess.

The answers go by how I labeled the questions. (1st is bolded in the passage, second is underlined, third is italicized)

Hope I helped anyway...