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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.
Resource Identifier
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