Creator

John Muir

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68 [sketch]

69 Wall of next next camp lake hollow is a nest its lakes ly [lie] in it like eggs. Nest is feathered with spruces & downed with mosses 7 sedge rushes & moss [crossed-out words: musical & rills] & sweet voiced rills whistle bounteously like birds never was bird noise more tuneful. Eggs spotted with [ ] & [ ] shadows. Laid by glac who also builded the nest hatched [sun] to meadows now roasted by sun

Date Original

1872

Source

Original journal dimensions: 7 x 15 cm.

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MuirReel23Journal08P068-069.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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