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Circa Date
circa 1887
Transcription
105
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[away with graceful ease & reserve of strength that cannot fail to make us admire them under whatever circumstances. Over nearly all the continent Everywhere the Deer seems to be at home [finds] in lands where there are leafy hidings. In the Florida savannahs, wading & swimming from hummock to hummock in the Tamarac swamp of the east/west, in the Canada woods in the far north at the level of the sea, roaming over mossy tundras, swimming lakes & rivers & arms of the salt sea from island to island among islands washed with white waves, or among the rocks & waterfalls & giddy precipices of the mountains everywhere this beautiful animal is at home, is in health & never is awkward, never makes one ungraceful step, adding beauty to [making] every landscape wild garden & grove more beautiful. A truly admirable creature & a great credit to Nature.]
July 23d Another new midday cloudland [today. Expansive & imposing] as usual a marvelous] displaying [of boundless/divine] power & beauty that one never wearies in beholding, [an advertisement of pure Beauty not]
Date Occurred
1869
Resource Identifier
MuirReel31 Notebook07 Img056.jpg
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Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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