Creator

John Muir

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99 Toppled over. It is nearly impossible to climb the [terraced] moraines whose [stones] are at so steep an angle that they need but a touch to send them down Muddy water in all the small lakes about the foot of the gls [glaciers] Many of these lakes are hidden with snow early in season The dividing crest |o| [between] Lyell & trib [tributary] shows how headlands are

100 formed & how isolated into peaks [sketch: moraine; bent dirt]

Date Original

1872

Source

Original journal dimensions: 7 x 15 cm.

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MuirReel23Journal08P099-100.tif

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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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