Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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Transcription
[13]ready to discuss the origin of these planes of cleavage wh make this granite so easily de[illegible]dable, nor their full significance with regard to muntain structure in general I will only say here that oftentimes the granite contained between two of these N 30 E [places?] is softer than that outside & has been de[illegible]ded leaving vertical walls as determined by the direction of the cleavage thus giving rise to those narrow slotted canons called "Devils slides" Devils lanes" "Devils galeways" etc'. In many places in the higher portions of the Sierras these are slotted canyons which are filled with "Snow". This I thought might prove to be ice or might prove to be living glaciers [14]still engaged in cutting into the mountains like endless saws. To decide this question on the 23d of August last I set two stakes in the narrow slot glacier of Mt Hoffman marking their position by sighting across from wall to wall as I did on the McClure glacier, but on visiting them a month afterwards I found that they had been melted out & I was unable to decide any- thing with any considerable degree of accuracy. On the 4th of Oct last I stretched a small trout line across the glacier fastening both ends in the solid bank, [deleted: thus] wh at this place were only 16 feet apart. I set a short inflexible stake in the ice so as just to touch the tigh[illegible] drawn line, by wh
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Oct 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0955-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0955
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 8
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
