Creator

John Muir

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15 Highest Lake of 9. 9800 Snowy banks a ft thick [Some] lakes eyes not yet fairly open scaled with snow & ice Well may those eyes whose sockets were formed by glaciers & filled with sensitive waters [by] yearly closed with [ ] of ice and dusted with crystal of snow. Earth one great eyeball formed of many, like a spiders [sketch]

16 [sketch: [that] formed here]

Date Original

1872

Source

Original journal dimensions: 7 x 15 cm.

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MuirReel23Journal08P015-016.tif

Publisher

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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