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40 Alt San Joaq [Joaquin] Cascades 650 ft Alt bot [bottom] 8950
The river forks here the left valley is deeper & every way larger but far greater portion of water comes from right cascades here in vert [vertical] leaps but short comes from fine vall [valley] with out [ ] in background to val [valley] at fork. Whole descent about 700 ft. This is very interesting place from the meeting of granite with the slate. Slate op S 20[W] granite N a little higher [sketch of a valley: “s” “g”] the rock is planed smooth with
41 ice showing splendid sections with all kinds of granite veins & map shaped & boulder shaped masses of every size in the dark slate. Mostly the granite & slate however mixed yet are seperate [separate] & meet sharply but in some places they seem to blend, but in all cases every crack & seam & joint belonging to one is contoured on through the other. Granite has the same physical structure essentially as slate. This true on grand or small scale.
Date Original
1873
Source
Original journal dimensions: 8 x 12 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel24Journal03P040-041.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
