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Circa Date
circa 1887
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Top table between 3rd and 2nd Yosemite Val. [Valley] 8100 foot moraine where ascend with horses
Top 8450 and is mor [moraine] shoulder.
Alt. [Altitude] grand, rounded, bossy rock head of Little Yosemite Val. [Valley] 8300-0 So also Tis like front, & level topped escarpment coming forward from Mt Starr King group.
The Tis like front farther west is about 100 ft(?) lower [(than larger.)]
Direction of great N. Lat. [North latitude] Moraine of Lyell gl [glacier] about West – also S. [south] moraine about same altitude & well marked when possible. That is where slope is low enough to allow moraine material to rest.
One mile from upper shoulder (N. mor. [north moraine]) slope about 24° [degrees].
Alt. [Altitude] of outmost moraine N [north] Lyell 8100.
Splendid garden about west end of water channels cut out and regulated by marmots.
Yo [Yosemite]
Splendid garden mountain side between Cloud’s Rest & South Dome- Orchids- habenaria 3 ft. 9 in. with 140 flowers- Azalias [azaleas] in glory (July 26 1873) also Lilium parvum and Hossackia grandifloria. Aspidium large tufted spiny, rushes with stems continued in a long taper point beyond the flowers.
Hosackia grandiflora gets into & lives among them. So
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do geraniums. The lofty panicles of Leersia wave nobly & many other grasses [chess] bromus & stipa etc.
Garden
Lupine, garden in the firs at a slope of 18° [degrees]. Great heat & moisture, pine burs in garden- breezy- bees, flies & humming birds. Saw humming birds feeding among the young shoots of the silver fir.
Saw bird larger than canary, bright yellow, dark orange, head- wing black barred with yellow.
[Marmots] Haplodont Mtn [Mountain] beavers keeping the water works of the garden.
July 25-
(Garden)
Date Occurred
1873
Resource Identifier
MuirReel32 Notebook02 Img008.Jpeg
Contributing Institution
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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