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[Sketch: Long straight mead [meadow] we descended; Can [canyon] becomes deep here & [precipitous]
Upper cans [canyons] of NFKR [North Fork King River]
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not too much velocity & thus sand heaps are formed as at Big Tuol [Tuolumne] Mead [Meadow] If val [valley] be narrow, then force of stream carries all away & sorts out at long distances when the action is less readable
(where descended)
All NW Can [northwest canyon] NFKR [North Fork King River] 7500. Slope 29°
Bot [bottom] 5500 cor
Oct 2
12th camp in very interesting Yo Sem [Yosemite] val [valley] of NFKR [North Fork King River] nearly circular at bottom timbered with Sugar & Yel [yellow] pines of rare beauty some very large. Most of
Date Original
1873
Source
Original journal dimensions: 8 x 12 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel24Journal03P064-065.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
