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The sunbeaten sides of these two mors [moraines] are [gardens] devoted chiefly to the [Eriogonum], [Compositae] & grasses
A sq [square] [200] contains 5 or 6 Eriogs [Eriogonums], the same Comp [Compositae] & two or 3 tall branches of rye grass, each quite separate with bare gravel & sand [between]
Singularly beautiful cushioned mottled colors purple & yel [yellow], with red & gray soil few woody [shrubs] Purshii ephedra cherry plum, roses
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Sage & [comp] [Linosyris]
The mor artificial – lake in dir [direction] & [slope] & mixed soil
Planted in art [artificial] way in clumps & [tufts] smoothly raked [between]
The first basin small one small [ ] grove in the middle roots watered by [stream]
2d largest v [very] [level]
its lake does not appear to [have] [been] [deep], because gl [glacier] was [here] flowing nearly level, had [left]
Date Original
1873
Source
Original journal dimensions: 8 x 12 cm.
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MuirReel24Journal03P166-167.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
