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[forms] the fertile bottom lands on wh [which] most of the best ranches are located.
Malaria pretty common from one end to the other.
The amount of water now in the river Nov 15th 1877 a dry year is about a [current] ten feet wide 2 ft deep flowing 3 miles per hour - a month ago while evaporation was much greater. The amount was less than half as much nearly dry.
The San Joa [Joaquin] was in most places a series of currentless pools separated [wholly] by sand bars now quite a current [ ] [above] the Merced.
Hills Ferry at confluence 5th day camped about 5 miles
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below in a hog pasture
Fired big oak trunk, heavy dew & fog.
6th day [rowed] about 17 miles in a [singularly] [duller] snaggy worm out looking [portion] of the river. Camped in a very fertile grassy field in willow thicket - fire of drift.
On Patterson grant.
7th day [rowed] 18 miles, camped just above [Graysonvilles] Enjoyed some fine [beaches] glassy slipping current fine views of Coast mtns [mountains] Cold & foggy until noon then hot
passed over two peebly bars Found a salmon [trout] [new]
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Date Original
1877
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Original journal dimensions: 10.5 x 17 cm.
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MuirReel25Journal04P21-22.tif
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Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
