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7 between the head of Dease Lake Telegraph Creek in great part give place to handsome fir around the lake, upward to the
north on the mountains. The tallest about a hundred feet, one foot diameter at ground, feathered with short branches from
top to bottom. The cones are 3 inches long, one in diameter, dark purple, bracts short, dark colored, wings of seeds very
dark. leaves 5/8 to 7/8 inch long, falcate, blunt, excepting those of leading shoots which are quite sharp. Mostly pale yellow-green.
The mountain-side on the west side of the lake is forested with this tree. leaves all around the branches. This I guess is
enough Goodbye. Remember me to good lively boyish Cicuta? Canby Ever Yours John Muir