Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Joseph] Le Conte
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Transcription
4 [A]main range, and vast ice floes from the Tuolumne above Hetchy Hetchy broke over into the Merced basin by the "Yo Semite, Cascade and Tamarac tributaries. Most of this Tuol- umne ice had to cross the great canon reaching from near the Soda Spring to Hetchy thus. [drawing] 1. Yo Dr Joseph Le Conte. Yo Semite, Dec 17. '72Dear Le Conte. My seasons work is done. I have had one gen- eral view of the Merced basin above Yo Semite and am aston- ished at the magnitude of the ancient glaciers with which it was universally flooded, and of the work which they accom- plished. The entire basin is one glacial monument covered with inscriptions, some graved in small line characters too minute for our eyes, others dif- ficult to read because of their magnitude, the depth of canon and height of dome composing the separate letters thereof. 00634
Location
Yosemite [Calif.]
Date Original
1872 Dec 17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0997-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0997
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
