Creator

John Muir

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3 pt [point] then was a giving to bed with this world is all a fleeting [show] expression than a hasty staggering reappearance to find out whether there might be any [hope] in the fresh air along the [outer] [rail] [attended] with volcanic action this deep subsidence & withdrawal with smothered murmurs. [ ] Oh dears & [ ] observations in fragments concerning pleasure trips up the coast along the cool sea, no more for me, etc. [Moving] & Mourning 21 A heavy northeaster almost a gale the heavy broad swells white capped. The Dakota is racing across them head & tail up & down like a spanish steer racing across the pampas.

[sketch: Rocky islet to the south of Cape Flattery]

Date Original

1879

Source

Original journal dimensions: 9 x 14.5 cm.

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MuirReel25Journal07P003-004.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

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