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Circa Date
circa 1887
Transcription
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humpy dots with dimples between them [separated by a network of trees & flat sloping [flat] pavements also abound & bits of green meadows & lakelets Trans to beginning of pg 46 The whole crystal basin seems to be [paved] with domes great & small [have been sculptured from the solid for] the trends of [all the] its main topographical features [of its topography] are interrelated. Conforming no doubt to the direction of the flow & the pressure of the overwsweeping ice [that occupied it][glaciers. All distinct as a shell & shaped like the valve of a common clam wide & comparatively] Compared with its width this wonderful basin seems [basin is] shallow from this high stand point & its [main] features are displayed like engravings in [an picture book] network of [rills] converging rills wide spread toward Yosemite converging near the lower edge where all the gathered drainage] is hurled over the Yosemite wall. Trans to 121 How many gardens are in it? [this basin] How [many lakes?] what trees? Animals [birds, deer, bears?] I must turn away but my eye fills when I think of its wealth in all that I so dearly love, leave me in this Godful wilderness [with its smooth shining domes & crystal pavements & lakes & living waters sounding through the woods & all these gardens with their inhabitants] & they who will may
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gather & possess all the prizes the world [that civilization] has to offer & this is but one of many Trans to p 121 see p 116 [What might fall to my share] I would be a blessed vagabond with a glad heart for here [gladly give away to anybody that cared for it. Here] it seems to me every devout aspiration would [would] be far more than satisfied. Even in the din & confusion of this camp [and amid the duties taken upon my shoulders] I find a glorious exhilaration in [amid] these landscapes fresh from God’s hand. As if this were the very dawn of creation & we [had been blessed in being made] were fortunate spectators arrived just in time [of it all] God Himself still seems to be working here [yet] with something like human enthusiasm. & what a show He is making [the curtain is up on some of the acts & this is the theatre for me]. Every morning I say to myself Born again a new day, a new world & when we walk here & there with eager [hungry] mind ever full yet gloriously hungry, poor yet possessing everything, hunting [particular] bits of Knowledge there is never a blank. [Never a blank here. He true marvel is that everybody does not come rushing to this exhilaration leaving small concerns to care & fare as they may. True] All the world is one, but some of it is thickly veiled to our dim eyes. Nevertheless, here we may see God in very truth on account
Date Occurred
1869
Resource Identifier
MuirReel31 Notebook07 Img027.jpg
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Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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