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A beautiful spot near their landing place where the sod so woven with bushes, dwarf alder, cranberry and crowberry, Ledum, Arbutus that being undermined, it bent over the cliff like a curtain, making a chamber that could be entered by a bush-fringed opening. This vertical curtain was growing luxuriantly, and the berries were ripe on it – one could stand and pick them like picking grapes from trellis. 10th Sep. Warm, 50o at 8 A.M. when Mr. Nelson and I left the ship in the launch with crew of 6 men to examine the right bank of the estuary of the Buckland and ______ rivers. Found 2 rocky masses, formerly islands, now portions of the Choris peninsula by the deposition of river sand, etc. quartz, pebbles, 20 miles from end of
Date Original
1881
Source
Original journal dimensions: 11.5 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel27Journal02P095A.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
