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66 quantities of fine gold the quantity [equal] correspond-ing to amount of gravel [removed] - Valleys wholly contained in gravel are [being] washed down to solid bedrock gravel. The whole Topography [between] [Forbes] Town + plains very compliant to glacial force [moved] SW ly Hendricks Claim 4 miles N of Owville. [Sketch: square with layers of dots and lines] Basalt clean glassy frae sand quantiy [pebbles][small] Brown decaying gravel [Blue] gravel 65 (Fragrance) Not only [intensely] [fresh] [] fragrant [there] was not only the [rubbing] of Mn-[mountain] pine needles [against] one [another] [sketch: horizontal line]. [Lhr] sand in [] places [slaty] [enough] for [groundstorm]. The [quartz] [pebbles] mostly white. Sand mostly [divided] from [quartz] [Lhr] gray [] gravel rusty + old mostly soft enough [to pack] [w]-knife much of [below] also soft. All of [these] [deposits] [similar] to those of Cherokee - [only] finer [Blur] in [some] places I had [cut] always as if [crushed] + muddy. The Cayn as if [current] land. Both in Cherokee + Morris Ravin + [indeed] in all [deposit] of this kind the [blur] is [layer]
Date Original
1874-10-01
Source
Original journal dimensions: 9 x 14.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel24Journal07P65-66.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
