Preview
Transcription
It grows scattered here and there among other trees in the general forest, and is easily recognized by its remarkably smooth skin-like bark, and its massive trunk and branches. Altogether I measured and sketched about a dozen specimens. The fruit is green, about six inches long and three in diameter, hanging straight down, and very conspicuous. The leaves are thin, delicate, and smooth. About three to four or five inches long and wide. The bark is gray in color, wonderfully smooth, shining, wrinkled here and there, and slightly corrugated horizontally, but with no furrow like the bark of most other trees. It looks like leather, or the skin of the rhinoceros. On my return trip I
Date Original
November 1911
Source
Original journal dimensions: 10 x 17 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel30Journal09P054-055.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Rights Management
To view additional information on copyright and related rights of this item, such as to purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish them, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
