Title

August-September 1877, Cinder Cone Sketches, etc. Image 11

Creator

John Muir

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Transcription

Cinder Cone North base 6180. Black ashes & cinders with solid black intermixed yellow & umber Summit North Outer rim -- 6635 Edge of interior crater -- 6575 Bottom of the inner crater -- 6480 Circum [circumference] of in [inner] crater -- 6770 yd [yards] E [east] Eriogon [Eriogonum] W [west] 22 [pines] contorta N [north] 2 willows W [west] 3 willows On N [north] of outer cone 1 large willow pines all [fruitful]. 1 foot high 2 [cosy] [Decaying] [pitch] pine 84 ft [feet] long 52 pairs of [knots] laid [regally] on [sand] the trunk wholly vanished [Sketch]

[Sketch of sawtooth mountain range]

Date Original

1877

Source

Original journal dimensions: 10 x 15.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

MuirReel25Journal03P19-20.tif

Publisher

Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

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