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alders by stream
meadow full Hosackia, Purshii, golden rods, rosas, many fine [camps]
Oct6
16th C [camp] at Thomas Mills, coming here had long weary up hill. Up from val [valley] over hill 500 ft then down 2000, to very lovely wide open level bottomed oak dotted valley of Mill Crk [creek]. Ind [Indian] town then up val [valley] Mill Crk [creek] 6ms [miles] to ranch & wagon road, then [a]
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6 more to Mill beautiful valley, brown as the plains.
The ice action not clear in foot-hills
Did the ice sculpture these sharp ridges just before the breaking up of the ice winter, as it sculptured the summits. Wh [which] they resemble
Our camp on the N [north] river side 1500 ft above river was [intensely] [lovely]
Date Original
1873
Source
Original journal dimensions: 8 x 12 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel24Journal03P078-079.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
