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36 in a [naked] clean [surfaced] condition to any of those conducting to be fed & nourished by them, only in this way can we procure our daily spirit bread only thus may we be filled with the holy ghost
17 Half cloudy snow this eve. Last eve 5 or 6 inches 18 7 or 8 in snow Last night & still snowing 9 PM snowing after noon Fine gentle snow storm Snow over all & in all 19th sunful again in continuance of daily snow & sun vibration. Falls very deeply coated
37 with ice wh [which] came down at intervals of few minutes all day with astonishing length & breadth of reverberating sounds. 20th Sun Calm. Loud thundering of ice from border of Yo fall continuing all day Witnessed grand snow aval, back of [Lingdys] winter house exactly similar to fall of water when it arrived at horizontal bench it filled it as a stream does [with] a basin & thus flowed on
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21 Fine sunful PM cldy [cloudy] forenoon
Date Original
December 1872
Source
Original journal dimensions: 10 x 16.5 cm.
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MuirReel23Journal10P36-37.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
