Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Strentzel Family]
Preview
Transcription
3oddly commingled on good rising glacial ground. The Sound is fairly dotted with islands some of them more rocks tufter with Couifers, Merizies Spruce & Hemlock & Cypress. The green damp crowded leafy luxuriance of the woods on the level bottoms of the main island is is indescribably extravagant. Generation after generation of trees fall upon one another & waste to humus until moss & logs & leaves form a grass ten of twelve feet thick upon which the present forest is growing. In many places not a root of trees even 150 ft high touches the ground – [illegible] I mean. They are growing on a tangle of mossy decayed & decaying spongy logs – the constant wetness preventing fires. I noticed four trees today growing astride a prostrate trunk & that again on others now decayed. A section cut near the shore through the mass of roots & logs & humus for a fishing station made some strange developments. Dead stumps 75 ft high accumulate wet massy cushions of moss, & polypod[illegible] find their way up there & flourish on them & so do young hemlocks & spruces, making green lively gardens in the air. The direction of the flow of the ice that 00859
Location
Sitka, [Alaska]
Date Original
1879 Jul 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_1114-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 1114
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
