Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[A. H., Fay and Frank ?] Sellers
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Transcription
2The Ural Mountains as far I saw them are low & broad & densely forested, mostly with P[illegible] stris, The Siberian road runs through one contin[ual?] bed of fertile soil open grass or lightly covered with belts & patches of birch trees 30 or 40 feet high. Magnificent pine & larch forests about Tomsk & Irkutsk . A wonderful lake is Baikal 400 miles long, 5000 feet deep at South and though only 1500 ft above the sea, & bounded by granite bluffs. Man[illegible] is a beautiful country - richly forested mountains & low hills alternating with charming - open fertile sunny valleys - & broad level plains to southward The lands along the Amour also fertile & forested with oak ash, tilia, maple, pine, fir, spruce larch etc. Was three times at Vladivostok before getting away on little Japanese steamer to [illegible] touching at five Corean ports on the way
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1904-06-16 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir14_0238-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0238
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library . 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
