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small valley with stream (quite small) on granite debris & moraine material well rotted. Soil not much removed from roots since growth.
In many places quite near the trees I observed the granite bed rock or [points] fast crumbling
The Gen [General] Grant is very barbarously destroyed by visitors hacking off chips & engraving their names in all styles
Men residing in the grove shingle making
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said that in last six [week] as many as 50 visitors had been in the grove
It is easy of access by a wagon road [ ] Thomas Mill.
The great Kings R [river] Can [canyon] is just a few days beyond, with all that is most sublime in the mtn [mountain] scenery of America & as the SPRR [Southern Pacific Railroad] is completed beyond Visalia this region is comparatively accessible to tourists
The big [Sequoias] are always near the big
Date Original
1873
Source
Original journal dimensions: 8 x 12 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel24Journal03P084-085.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
