Title
July 1867 - February 1868, The "thousand mile walk" from Kentucky to Florida and Cuba Image 31
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Transcription
in their dwellings of leaf and flower. Myriads of the most gorgeous butterflies too, all kinds of happy insects seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a centre of life. The dead do not “reign there alone.” It was October (9th) that I first beheld Bonaventure, to me one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the green oceans of Canada and western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin oaks, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests, but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the Tillandsia [Drawing - “Live oak Bonaventure Georgia”]
Date Original
July 1867
Source
Original journal dimensions: 10 x 16.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel23Journal01P048.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
