Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Peter L. Trout
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(2)do you any good. That your health is good is of itself a grand foundational blessing that you should make the most of. As for my laugh over your celestial theory of the origin of gold that is nothing. I too suppose that the gold & every other mineral was at one time in our star's history a float in the sky But if you consider how completely the gold regions of the North were covered with slow crawling down grinding in & how far the waste of [demidation?] is carried, in some cases hundreds of miles, even the heavy gravels & boulders while the finer particles are carried thousands of miles in rivers & ocean currents & the winds ere they come to rest in beds, then you will have less difficulty in accounting for the wide distribution of gold even in regions where the bed rocks are barren. You are no doubt right in your theory of the formations of
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1899-03-28T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0719-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0719
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
