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[1] Top table |o| 3 & 240 [val] July [20th] foot moraine where ascend with horses 8450 & is near shoulder grand rounded [bossy] rock head of Yo Sem Val [Yosemite Valley] 8300. So also Tis like [ ] & level topped escarpment coming [ ] from Mt Starr King group Tis like front farther [up] is about 100 ft? than [larger] great it [Lat] [Morain] of Lyell about [ ] S. [ ] about [same] Alp & [well] [ ]where possible [mile] from up shoulder (N) [mor] slope [about] 24° [ ] of outmost moraine of Lyell 8100 Splendid garden at west end of water [ ] cut out & regulated by marmots [ ] mtnside [mountainside] |o| Clds R [Clouds Rest] & [ ] D [ ] with 140 flrs Azaleas in [6573)] also Lilium Parvum & [Aspidium] large tufted [ ] stems [crulinned] 2 in a long [taper] point beyond the [flrs] [Hasaekea] sets nuts & leaves among them so do geraniums. The lofted panicles [Leerzia] wave nobly many grasses [chess] & stipa etc. Lupine garden in the firs at slope of 18° great [heat] & moisture pine burs in garden, breezy, bees, flies & [humming] birds Saw [ ] bird feeding among the young shoots of the silver fir. Saw [bird] larger than canary light yellow dark orange head wing black barred with yellow Marmots keeping the water works of the garden July 25 (Garden)
Date Original
1873
Source
Original journal dimensions: 15 x 18 cm.
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MuirReel24Journal02FromBackP01-02.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
